Monthly Archives: February 2014

Amnesty accuses the Israeli authorities of failing to publish the findings of investigations into killings Continue reading the main story Mid-East crisis Q&A: Israeli-Palestinian talks Little hope for talks Prisoner profiles Core issues Israeli forces are using excessive and reckless … Continue reading →

  This article shows the life of refugees under the Stalin regime getting to return to their homeland 4 years after the death of Stalin in 1953. It shows a similar story of the deportation of the Jews and I … Continue reading →

Here are links to many of the major documents we have discussed, as published by Yale University: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/mideast.asp

February 18, 2014 1:49 PM RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian construction worker Nael Yassin and his wife, Wafa, are the proud parents of a new baby girl — the fifth child for the couple in their early 30s. Such fecundity … Continue reading →

With increasing pressure on Israel by Europe, Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, claims that the Boycott Divestment Sanctions (BDS) movement is a modern form of anti-antisemitism seeking to end the Jewish state.  Additionally, Netanyahu sees some supporters of the BDS … Continue reading →

The Intifada: Its Impact on Israel, the Arab World, and the Superpowers is an article on the First Intifada. It includes information on politics and effects it has on the future, but does not have many details of battles themselves. … Continue reading →

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A decade ago, after the suicide bombings of the second Palestinian uprising, Israelis mostly came to Ramallah and the Mukata, the West Bank headquarters of the Palestinian leadership here, in tanks or armored military vehicles. On … Continue reading →

Smith does not actually have the Passfield White Paper in his documents, probably because it is so long, but here is a link for anyone interested in reading the full paper: https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/passfield.html