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From Peters’ Time Immemorial, Summary of Chapter 3: The Arab Jew
Introduction
“The Arab Jew” is the longest chapter of Joan Peters' book. The chapter profiles many of these vulnerable communities, the other, true but ignored, refugees of the Middle and North Africa. It tells of...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 12- A Hidden Factor in Western Palestine: Arab...
Introduction:
From my own point of view, Chapter 12 contains more than enough statistical evidence accumulated in years of study by many researchers whose work attests to disproportionate Arab immigration into a tiny portion, the...
FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL – Joan Peters – Chapter 13: A Hidden Movement: Illegal Arab...
Introduction
Joan Peters opens her chapter with quotes from British officials:
“Arab immigration into Palestine? Why, it did not exist. There was no such thing. No one ever kept track of that.
-Veteran archivist, British Public Record...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, Chapter 14: Official Disregard of Arab Immigration
Introduction:
The history of the British people has been indelibly stained by the record of the British Government's mendacious, mal-intentioned management of the Palestine Mandate.
As the reader will see, those twin contortionists, the British...
Joan Peters, From Time Immemorial, chapt. 18: The Flight from Fact
Introduction:
It was a privilege to re-read and summarize a chapter in this book. I hope that I was able to capture the nature of the author that permeates the pages: a devoted humanitarian, but...
BBC reporter revealed to be member of secret anti-Israel Facebook group
The indefatigable David Collier has published a long two-part report about a secret Facebook Group called ‘Palestine Live’ that includes among its membership Holocaust deniers, antisemites and conspiracy theorists.
Part one of the report can be found here and...
Indiscretions in the newest UNRWA textbooks
Having read the UNRWA official response to their critics, UNRWA declares that they found some 3% of the total pages inconsistent with UN values of neutrality, gender equity and age-appropriateness, but they do not...
Visiting Ramallah
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children”; painted on a wall inside of the “Hostel in Ramallah.” (Lilia Gaufberg)
This past July, at the peak of another sweltering Israeli summer, I hopped onto...
The Palestinian textbook problem
On what values does the Palestinian Authority and United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school system raise and educate generations of students? Dr. Arnon Gross, formerly a senior Arabic language broadcaster at Voice...