Article from Spiegel Online A friend of mine posted this on his personal blog with a quote: “A nation that mandates the primacy of one ethnicity or religion over all others will eventually become psychologically dysfunctional. Narcissistically obsessed with its … Continue reading →

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League of Nations Mandate System

Posted on February 16, 2012 by naltikri

Class A Mandate (Former Ottoman Territories): -Mesopotamia (United Kingdom) -Palestine (United Kingdom) -Syria (France) Class B Mandates (Former German Territories in Africa): -Ruanda-Urundi (Belgium) -Tanganyika (United Kingdom) -Kamerun (Split Between French and UK) -Togoland (Split Between French and UK) Class … Continue reading →

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“A Land without a People for a People without a Land”

Posted on February 16, 2012 by naltikri

This article by Diana Muir can be found on the Jewish Virtual Library website. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Zionism/DMuirMEQzionism.html It discusses the context and history of the phrase as well as the controversy surrounding it.

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On Ottoman Sultans and their Jewish Communities

Posted on February 10, 2012 by naltikri

http://www.sephardicstudies.org/sultans1.html This website is interesting because it traces the history of Ottoman sultans and the Jewish communities that lived during their reigns.

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Y.L. Pinsker’s Autoemancipation 1881

Posted on February 7, 2012 by naltikri

In class you asked if Palestine was mentioned as a destination in Autoemancipation. In “Israeli identity: in search of a successor to the pioneer, Tsabar and settler” by Lilly Weissbrod on GoogleBooks, on page 15 states “Palestine was not mentioned … Continue reading →

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