Peoplehood
Nationhood and its claims
22 essays
State Department Legitimizes Terror
Update: To whom did the Obama administration grant permission to fly the Palestinian Liberation Organization flag in Washington D.C.? The answer: Palestinian Arabs - a …
Palestine is Jewish
The League of Nations recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine and grounds for reconstituting their national home, while Palestine itself …
Artificially Created States
The League of Nations unanimously recognized the historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine. Yet modern Arab states like Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and Iraq …
Short and Simple: The Palestinian State
An examination of the historical absence of a sovereign Palestinian state and the artificial nature of Palestinian identity within the Arab world.
Goldstone: Terms that Deceive
Eli Hertz examines how Goldstone and UN bodies misuse terminology to rewrite history and falsely establish Palestinian identity and territorial claims.
The Territories
A UN coalition sought to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied Territories,’ thus endowing them with an aura of bogus statehood and a false history. They …
Arbitrarily Created Countries
The League of Nations unanimously recognized the Jewish people’s historical connection to Palestine in 1922, yet modern Arab states were arbitrarily carved from the …
Charters/Constitutions - FATEH Constitution
FATEH – the main faction of the PLO to which Arafat belonged and was its founding member – displays its constitution on its website. It calls under Article 12 for the: …
Charters/Constitutions - PLO Charter
With great fanfare, the Palestine National Council (PNC) met in Gaza in the spring of 1994 to consider amending the PLO Charter, as Yasser Arafat had promised following …
Israel's Declaration of Independence
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, …
Jewish Peoplehood in Palestine
It is remarkable to note the April 22, 1925 Report of the first High Commissioner on the Administration of Palestine, Sir Herbert Louis Samuel describing Jewish …
No Occupied Territories
A UN coalition sought to rewrite history by labeling the Territories ‘Occupied Territories,’ thus endowing them with an aura of bogus statehood and a false …
Olmert's Twisted Priorities voices sorrow for Palestinian refugees
It is important to set the historical record straight: The overwhelming majority of Palestinian refugees left what was then the newly-established State of Israel on their …
Palestine is a Geographical Area, Not a Nationality
The Arabs invented a special national entity in the 1960s called the Palestinians, specifically for political gain. They brand Israelis as invaders and claim the …
Palestinian Arab Self-Determination
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) in its Advisory Opinion in the matter of the construction of the “wall” in Judea and Samaria, cites the right to …
Palestinians 'Peoplehood' Based on a Big Lie
The Palestinian claim to ancient and indigenous peoplehood fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian Arabs were newcomers to British Mandate Palestine, …
President Obama, Please Reconsider...
** Mr. President: On June 4, 2009 in a Keynote Address to the Muslim world delivered from Cairo you asserted that it is “undeniable that the Palestinian people - …
The Goldstone Report - Using Terminology in Service of Deception
Justice Richard Goldstone and the United Nations Human Rights Council sought to rewrite history by labeling Judea and Samaria as ‘Occupied Palestinian …
The Legacy of European Colonialism
Israel is often referred to as a colonial power responsible for much of the instability in the Middle East. The problem is that this labeling is a total fallacy. Unlike …
The Nation-State of the Jewish People
The Mandate for Palestine, a League of Nations document, established the Jewish legal right under international law to settle in Palestine, an entitlement unaltered in …
U.S. State Department Undermines Jewish Rights and Defies International Law
The U.S. State Department has recently released a video on its website displaying remarks on the current activities of the new “U.S.-Palestinian Partnership” …
U.S. State Department Undermines Jewish Rights and Defies International Law - The Tale of a "U.S.-Palestinian Partnership
The U.S. State Department has recently released a video on its website displaying remarks on the current activities of the new “U.S.-Palestinian Partnership” …