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Lamentation: The Second Temple-era list of Temple priestly families from a stone tablet in Yemen

Tonight and tomorrow is Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish calendar that commemorates the destruction of the two Temples and many other tragedies that befell the Jews throughout the centuries.

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Were Jewish children taught that Palestinian Arabs didn’t exist, as Seth Rogen claims?

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Another ignorant moron who is the product of the liberal Jewish establishment. Of course he wasn’t taught Israel’s history. He also wasn’t taught Jewish history or Judaism. The guy is a walking cliche.

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Black Gentiles (and Black Jews) became famous for Jewish cantorial music in the 1920s

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My Right Word: Are Palestinians Philistines?

Here is a Philistine artifact found in the Land of Israel: No Arabic you'll notice. Here is an inscription from Tel Arad left by th...

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'Farhud' Massacre of Iraqi Jews Remembered, 79 Years Later

Rioters during the antisemitic pogrom in Baghdad, Iraq, known as the ‘Farhud,’ June 1, 1941. Photo: Twitter. Jewish leaders and …

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Elder Of Ziyon - British census in 1922 says that lots of Arabs came to Beersheva from Transjordan and Arabia

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One of the many, endless, Palestinian lies is that today’s “Palestinians” are the descendants of people who have lived in the land for millennia. Most of today’s Arabs in Judea and Samaria either moves here themselves from places like Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia etc. or are, at most 2 or 3 generations from people who did. (We also know that many of their last names are of Egyptian, Saudi, Syrian etc. origin).

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: There has been a nakba for 72 years. But it isn’t what Palestinians say it is.

The word “nakba” was coined in 1948 by Constantin Zureiq in his pamphlet “The Meaning of Nakba,” but he didn’t describe it the way it is used today. His description of the events of 1948 were centered around the mistakes of the Arabs rather than the actions of the Jews.

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New Book Reveals a Gripping True Story From Auschwitz | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner

The main gate at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Photo: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. In his gripping new book, The Boy …

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The Pogrom That Started the Palestinian Arab-Israeli Conflict

The opening shot - exactly one hundred years ago in 1920.

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Elder Of Ziyon - Even according to Palestinians, they have no history before Zionism

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The Forgotten Jewish Refugees From Arab Lands | HonestReporting

Much has been written about the Palestinian refugees, but little attention has been paid to nearly one million Jewish refugees forced to flee their Arab

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Elder Of Ziyon - Not only was Jerusalem never the capital of Muslim Palestine - it wasn't even a PART of what Muslims called Palestine

Here is the abstract of the academic article "Was Jerusalem Part of Palestine? The Forgotten City of Ramla, 900–1900" by Zachary J. Foster of Princeton University, published in the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies in 2016:

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Elder Of Ziyon - If Palestinians were a nation, why did they accept Ottoman control?

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1934 survey of Palestine showed how Jews helped Arabs; Arabs flocked to live near Jewish areas

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Auschwitz survivors: First Jews sent to the Nazi concentration camp were teenage girls

As the world marks the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Edith Friedman Grosman, who was 17 when she arrived at the Nazi concentration camp, tells her harrowing story in a new book

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Martin Luther King and Edward Said: Palestinian intellectuals never gave a damn about human rights

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Martin Luther King on Peace, Israeli Security and Anti-Zionism | CAMERA

Anti-Israel activists who name-drop Martin Luther King don't want you to know about his strong support for Israel, his understanding of the links between

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Hebron Remembered

The Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. The Torah reading for Shabbat Chaye Sarah (November 23) begins …

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Why Eisenhower deleted the Jews

The upcoming 50th anniversary of the passing of Dwight D. Eisenhower has occasioned a number of laudatory essays about the

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Hebron Riots of 1929: Anti-Jewish Terrorism Predates the 1967 War

Arab rejection of Israel and Zionism emerges from an all-or-nothing view of justice and honor. It has never brooked compromise or moderation.

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Sure Palestine existed. It became Israel. Today's "Palestine" has NOTHING to do with pre-1948 Palestine.

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Did Jews Ever Abandon the Temple Mount?

The claim that no Jewish temple ever existed in Jerusalem and that Jews have no rights whatsoever on the Temple Mount is part of the "temple denial" doctrine that has been increasingly internalized in Palestinian academic, religious, and political

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The Real Story Behind Netflix’s ‘The Spy’ | CAMERA

Netflix's 2019 series, 'The Spy,' takes a look at legendary Mossad officer Eli Cohen. But as CAMERA noted in The Washington Examiner: the real

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Did Arab Violence Really Start With the 'Occupation'? | HonestReporting

 Arab violence is frequently justified because of the "Naqba" of 1948 and the "occupation" of 1967. After all, they insist, Jews forced Arabs from

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Why Israel is the sole sovereign of the Temple Mount

If I were Israel's ambassador to Jordan, and I were called in for a dressing down over Israel's actions on

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No, the United Nations Didn’t Create Israel | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attends the UN Security Council meeting on Iran at the United Nations, in New …

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Jewish Roots: Building the Land of Israel | HonestReporting

A continuous Jewish presence in the Land of Israel goes back thousands of years before Jews returned on Aliyah to rebuild their homeland.

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We've Always Been Here: The Historical Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel

  Victor Rosenthal – We’ve Always Been Here: The Historical Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel I often talk about the Jewish people’s historical right to Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel, in addition to our legal and moral ri

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Palestinians can't erase the Hebrew on their "historic coins"

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What's in a Name? The Origins of Judea, Philistia, Palestine and Israel

Did the name Palestine come from the people, or did the people take their name from the place? What are the origins of Judea and Israel?

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Remembering History’s Most Audacious Hostage Rescue Mission: Entebbe, July 4, 1976 | Frontpage Mag

How Israel showed the world that the war on terror could be won.

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The Myth and Fraud That There Ever Was an Arab Country or People Called ‘Palestine’ (Part 1)

In a recent Nazi outrage, Rashida Tlaib, Democrat Liar of Michigan, stated that the Holocaust has had a “calming” effect on her because the “Palestinians” “welcomed” the Jews into “their” land as a haven from Hitler. The Big Lie —...

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The Myth and Fraud That There Ever Was an Arab Country or People Called ‘Palestine’ (Part Two of Two)

As noted in the prior installment, the entire “Palestine” myth is built on one Big Lie after another. Recently, the New York Times even published an article asserting that Jesus was a “Palestinian Arab.” Having spread the Big Lie for so long — half a cent

They don’t exist. Jews have a more than 3,500 year history and the term “Palestinian” has been applied to Muslim Arabs (vs everyone in the region including Jews) exclusively since 1967. There is no moral equivalence and “Palestinians” are in no way the indigenous people of Israel. The left hates that fact because truth isn’t a left wing priority when facts stand in opposition to their narrative. you don’t like that because it isn’t “nice”? Too bad. It’s still true.

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The invention of Palestinians | JNS

In the beginning of the 20th century and continuing throughout British Mandatory rule, there was little discernible evidence of Palestinian national consciousness.

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A glimpse of 19th century Jerusalem

In celebration of Jerusalem Day, the National Library of Israel takes a look back -- way back -- at the Holy City

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Elder Of Ziyon - What Einstein would have thought of J-Street, JVP. IfNotNow

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Under constant threat of survival, here is the miracle we call Israel

How Israel has defied ALL the odds!

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Rashida Tlaib’s Lies Remind Us Why Israel Must Exist; The myth that Palestinian Arabs helped Jews in WW2; You know you’re a Zionist when...

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The False “Nakba” Narrative

The term “Nakba,” originally coined to describe the magnitude of the self-inflicted Palestinian and Arab defeat in the 1948 war, has become in recent decades a synonym for Palestinian victimhood, with failed aggressors transformed into hapless victims

"Nor did the term resurface for decades following the 1948 war – not even in the PLO’s hallowed founding document, the Palestinian Covenant (1964, revised in 1968). It was only in the late 1980s that it began to be widely perceived as an Israeli-inflicted injustice."

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Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Yes, Palestinian identity is only meant as a weapon against Israel

I sometimes see endless Twitter discussions on whether Palestinians are a people, or whether pre-Israel Palestinian Arabs were a people.

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FDR's letter to the Palestine Pavilion at the World's Fair and the legality of Jewish settlements

n 1939, this letter by President Franklin Roosevelt was published by the organizers of the Palestine Pavilion at the New York World's Fair....

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The Invention of ‘Palestinians’

Why was it, wondered Walid Shoebat from Bethlehem, that 'on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian.'

The entire idea of Palestinian nationhood is built on a series of lies. That’s not PC, but it is true. Facts should matter, but unfortunately, far too many people buy into false, emotionally based, narratives.

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Ilhan Omar and the Myth of Jewish Hypnosis

A conspiracy theory with ancient roots and a bloody history.

GREAT explanation of both the antisemitic history behind Omar’s comments and why it is impossible to separate anti-Zionism from antisemitism.

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The First Actual Palestinian-American in Congress (and He Was Jewish)

Did you know that there was a Palestinian-American in the House long before anyone else, who was in fact the only one who was actually a citizen of “Palestine,” and who had a Palestinian passport? And that he was Jewish?

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Palestinian Information Center’s Timeline of Jerusalem Admits Their History Begins With Islamic Conquest

Once again it is a LIE that any Arabs loved in the land before the Islamic conquest. Arabs come from Arabia. The Jews existed for many millennia before the first Arabs arrived.

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The Inconvenient Truth About Israel’s “Occupation” of the Palestinians

Lex with some home truths about the so-called “occupation”

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Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War

Mention history, and it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation, and folks...

History doesn't just "matter," it is crucial to understanding the world we live in. This is an excellent overview of why the history of the Six Day War is so important.

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Why International Farhud Day Stymies Invented Palestinian History

When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted...

“Remembering the tragic facts of the Farhud process will make it harder for the newly-invented history to take root. After the Arabs rebranded themselves as “Palestinians” in May 1964 with the backing of the Soviet KGB, a new narrative began to come together...”

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Arab Historian Admits there is NO Palestinian People

When the Ottoman rule ended, there was no Palestinian national identity or political borders. It was all made up later. Arabs themselves say so, but the west isn't listening

“We live in a post-factual world. Facts no longer have any currency, unlike feelings and ideological posturing. The truth has been reduced to a troublesome inconvenience and if it happens to stare you in the face, nothing could be easier than closing your eyes or simply looking away.”

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The Origins of Arab Settlers in the Land of Israel

What’s in a name? In the case of the Arabs, it tells you what their tribe and country of origin are. It also dispels the biggest fallacy the “Palestinians” would like you to believe.

No Palestinians are not the indigenous people of Israel. The term “Palestine” is Roman in origin, not Arabic, and the people tekmskeves are Arabs, which means they originated in the Arabian peninsula. Even the modern Palestinian population descends from people who moved into the area after the Jewish influx made the area desirable.

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In film, survivor searches for US soldier who liberated him at Dachau | The Times of Israel

New documentary centers on Steve Ross, who was 'transformed' as a boy by an act of kindness in the concentration camp

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Why Isn't There a Palestinian State? | PragerU

Why don't the Palestinians have their own country? Is it the fault of Israel? Of the Palestinians? Of both parties? David Brog, Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force, shares the surprising answers. Read David Brog's book, "Reclaiming Israel's

Anyone who believes that the stumbling block to peace has been the lack of a Palestinian state needs to watch this.

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The Arabs' Historic Mistakes in Their Interactions with Israel

We Arabs managed our relationship with Israel atrociously, but the worst of all is the ongoing situation of the Palestinians. Our worst mistake was in not accepting the United Nations partition plan of 1947. Perhaps one should not launch wars if one is

A FASCINATING article written by Fred Maroun, who is Arab.

"The Jews of Israel welcomed Jewish refugees from Arab and other Muslim lands into the Israeli fold, regardless of the cost or the difficulty in integrating people with very different backgrounds. Israel eagerly integrated refugees from far-away lands, including Ethiopia, India, Morocco, Brazil, Iran, Ukraine, and Russia. By doing so, they demonstrated the powerful bond that binds Jews to each other. At the same time, we had the opportunity similarly to show the bond that binds Arabs together, but instead of welcoming Arab refugees from the 1947/48 war, we confined them to camps with severe restrictions on their daily lives."

"The worst part of the way we have treated Palestinian refugees is that even within the West Bank and Gaza, there remains to this day a distinction between Palestinian refugees and native Palestinians. In those lands, according to the year 2010 numbers provided by Palestinian Refugee ResearchNet at McGill University, 37% of Palestinians within the West Bank and Gaza live in camps! Gaza has eight Palestinian refugee camps, and the West bank has nineteen. The Jews are not keeping the Arabs in camps, we are. Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas claims a state on those lands, but we can hardly expect him to be taken seriously when he leaves the Palestinian refugees under his authority in camps and cannot even integrate them with other Palestinians. The ridiculousness of the situation is rivaled only by its callousness."

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The UN History of the Palestinian People: From Arafat to Abbas | Diane Weber Bederman | The Blogs | The Times of Israel

It is time to stand up and accuse the UN of Crimes Against Humanity-Jewish humanity.  This organization, through its......

This story should be called "A History of Why the UN is Despicable."

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2,000-year-old Maccabean-era fortress unearthed in Jerusalem after century-long search

Acra fortification, built by Hanukkah villain Antiochus IV Epiphanes, maintained Seleucid Greek control over Temple until its conquest by Hasmoneans in 141 BCE

This is particularly amazing just a few weeks before Chanukah. This IS the fortress that the Maccabees conquered on their way to reconquering Jerusalem.

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Israel's Anthem Played on Salvaged Holocaust Violins | The Jewish Standard

Musical instruments stolen and damaged during the Holocaust was a common occurrence, oft forgotten due to the magnitude of the atrocities committed overall upon humans.

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Surprising Mosaics Revealed in Ancient Synagogue in Israel

Archaeologists puzzle over depictions of dancers, elephants, and a mysterious figure that may be Alexander the Great.

More proof that refutes the ridiculous claims that Jews are a new arrival in the land. These predate Islam and the Arab arrival by about 700 years years and are not even remotely the most ancient artifacts found that demonstrates and unbroken chain of Jews living in Israel going back to the earliest dawn of history.

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Why Is Pakistan More Legitimate than Israel? - The Dennis Prager Show The Dennis Prager Show

Whenever I have received a call from a listener to my radio show challenging Israel’s legitimacy, I have asked these people if they ever called a radio show to challenge any other country’s legitimacy. In particular, I ask, have they ever questioned t

Israel and Pakistan arose under very similar circumstances, roughly at the same time. The results were spectacularly different. Why does one country continually have its legitimacy questioned, while the other is just another player on the world stage? Find out in this fantastic article by Dennis Prager.

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Israel's Legal Founding - Prager University

When the state of Israel was founded in 1948, it was done so with the approval of the United Nations. But today, Israel's enemies routinely challenge the legitimacy of its very existence. So, under international law, who's right? Israel? Or its enemies?

Another fantastic video from Prager University.

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Powerful! Are we Living 1933 All Over Again? - Israel Video Network

Not to be believed. This is a call to your conscience. Horrible antisemitism repeats itself as history repeats itself. It’s time to recognize the BDS and holocaust denial for what it is. Watch and be horrified by the similarities between then and now.

This is astounding. I do not advocate over-reacting to the current situation, but the parallels to 1933 are too compelling to ignore.

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Haunting then and now pictures of the town next to Auschwitz

The harrowing moment the Jewish residents of Polish town Oswiecim, renamed Auschwitz by the Nazis, were rounded up in the high street was caught on camera.

Somehow seeing that the tame looks almost identical to how it looked during the Shoah makes it all even more real. I can only imagine what it was like for the victims who would occasionally see the town to know that the people in this town went on with their lives as though millions of people were being murdered feet away.

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Ancient rock adds evidence of King David’s existence | The Times of Israel

Stone slab with earliest reference to House of David, on display at Met, said to be 'one of the most important Biblical artifacts ever found'

This is incredible! !דוד מלך ישראל, חי, חי וקיים

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How Arabs stole Jewish property during the Jewish "Nakba" - Israel Ynetnews

As Palestinians mark 'Nakba Day,' history shows Jews were dispossessed of all their assets too after escaping Arab countries between 1944-1964

I wish they would have removed the word "too" from the headline considering the fact that millions of Arabs stayed in Israel and are now full citizens. That isn't true in a single Muslim nation.

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The Nazi Romance With Islam Has Some Lessons for the United States – Tablet Magazine

Both Hitler and Himmler had a soft spot for Islam. Hitler several times fantasized that, if the Saracens had not been stopped at the Battle of Tours, Islam would have spread through the European continent—and that would have been a good thing, since “

People need to understand that many of today's issues with Islam is not a coincidence.

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Saving Sergeant Netanyahu | The Times of Israel

How Israel's future prime minister was nearly killed in his first battle, as recalled by the comrades who rescued him while under Egyptian fire in the waters of the Suez Canal

Interesting story that sheds some light on what made Netanyahu, Netanyahu.

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The 1943 Rosh Hashanah Escape of Jews in Denmark

As Rosh Hashanah ticked away, 13-year-old Leo Goldberger hid in the thick brush along the shore of Dragor, a small fishing village south of Copenhagen.

This is an INCREDIBLE story which also is further evidence that the the "Allies didn't know how bad it was" lie is just that: a lie. FDR clearly could have done more to save thousands of Jewish lives.

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Another Tack: Old antipathies die hard

Some things just never change: Otherwise sterling democracies still hold fast to their archaic prejudices despite the dizzying flux and scary savagery of our times.

This is a VERY interesting article that explains some of the history behind Israel's recent announcement to take back part of Gush Etzion.

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Uncovered: U.K. intel encouraged Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948

Intelligence obtained by the French secret services in the Middle East sheds new light on Britain’s role in the Arab-Israeli War of Independence.

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Tech Titan Danny Lewin Was the First Victim of 9/11 – Tablet Magazine

By most accounts, Danny Lewin was the first victim of 9/11. Seated in seat 9B aboard American Airlines flight 11, he saw Mohamed Atta and Abdulaziz al-Omari, sitting just in front of him, rise and make their way to the cockpit. According to calls from fli

May his memory be for a blessing.

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Yup. Ok. Israel News: "Zionists trying to hide Canaanite-Palestinian civilization"

You know how Israel is always accused of using archaeology to hide any traces of Muslim presence in the land (a charge that a simple visit to the Israel Museum would dispel)?

Well, that's passe. Now Israel is being accused of hiding the flourishing Canaanite-Palestinian civilization.

They are SO infuriatingly dishonest.

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▶ WHAT IS PALESTINE? WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS? - YouTube

Another MUST SEE - "THE NAZIS AND THE PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT" at http://vimeo.com/69991225 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjARZPAcATM Original video at ht...

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Why the Holocaust Occurred in Germany, and Why So Few Resisted (REVIEW) | Jewish

It’s hard to make a new contribution to the field of Holocaust studies,  but German historian Götz Aly accomplishes just that in Why the Germans, Why the Jews? His premise is that the origins of the Holocaust were rooted in the specific anti-Semitism

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The Time Has Come to Get the Facts Straight on Israel's History

The facts are indisputable. The facts are indisputable. While the Arabs in Gaza and Judah and Samaria, are claiming Jerusalem as their capital, it is interesting to note some interesting facts: Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people since the reign of Kind David, almost 3000 years. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab, Moslem, or so called “Palestinian” entity. Mohamad never set foot in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is not mentioned one time in the Koran. Jerusalem is mentioned over 600 times in the Jewish bible.

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Stunning mosaic found at ancient Galilee synagogue | The Times of Israel

Team of archaeologists uncovers unprecedented non-biblical figures in decorations at Huqoq, a 5th-century Jewish village

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Articles: Islamic Fascism: the Nazi Connection

The irony is the despicable, yet increasingly common, accusation that Israel is any way analogous to 1930s Germany is that Hamas' roots actually do lie with the Nazis.

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Jewish Gaza

With everything that’s going on, it’s easy to forget that Gaza has a long Jewish history. It’s an odd history, however. The fact is that Gaza has never sat right with the Jewish people. Isaac, one of the three Biblical forefathers, was born somewhere between Beer Sheba and Gaza, precisely in the area that is suffering the most rocket attacks from Hamas.

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▶ The History of the Middle East Conflict in 11 Minutes - YouTube

Originally uploaded by encounterbooks on Sep 19, 2011 www.shoebat.com Great explanation of the constant rejection of peace by the Arabs and so called "Palest...

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The Middle East Problem

The Middle East conflict is framed as one of the most complex problems in the world. But, in reality, it's very simple. Israelis want to live in peace and ar...

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The Spielberg Jewish Film Archive - Line of Life with Golda Meir

Name: Line of Life with Golda Meir Year: 1977 Duration: 00:12:50 Language: English Abstract: Interview with Golda Meir and her dreams for Israel's developmen...

"I think that, for any Jew, if he has a basic interest in the continuity of the Jewish people, he cannot divide it from the security and life of Israel. Then it becomes one."

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Michael Medved - Does Israel have a right to exist? Does the U.S.

It should come as no surprise that some of the same angry leftists who stridently deny Israel’s