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News & opinions from a Palestinian-American
living & working in Ramallah/Al-Bireh, Palestine

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“Palestinian Refugees in International Law” (second edition) [Recommended]

“Palestinian Refugees in International Law” (second edition) [Recommended]

The 1998 first edition looks at the Palestinian refugee question, resulting from the events surrounding the birth of the state of Israel seventy years ago, remains one of the largest and most protracted refugee crises of the post-WWII era. Based on a survey of more than 50 countries conducted with support from UNHCR and UNRWA, the second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the status and treatment of Palestinian refugees in the Arab world and beyond.


Man-made Israel [Book Review]

Man-made Israel [Book Review]

What do you get when you mix ten decades of biblical studies, an Old Testament, the ideology of Zionism, and a tablespoon of politically motivated archaeology, all mixed in a bowl of historical evidence? Author Keith W. Whitelam undertook this recipe and reports on the results in The Invention of Ancient Israel: The Silencing of Palestinian History”. The short answer to the question is that one is left with a toxic modern state, hell-bent on crafting an umbilical cord between itself and a mythical 2000-year old past. In other words, the State of Israel.