{"id":7440,"date":"2009-12-31T21:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/?p=7440"},"modified":"2025-03-08T22:35:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T20:35:28","slug":"the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-conflict-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2009\/12\/the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-conflict-book\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict&#8221; paper [Recommended]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Published by Jews for Justice in the Middle East<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><a  href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Origin-of-the-Palestine-Israel-Conflict.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"386\" height=\"596\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Origin-of-the-Palestine-Israel-Conflict.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7442\" style=\"width:386px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Origin-of-the-Palestine-Israel-Conflict.png 386w, https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Origin-of-the-Palestine-Israel-Conflict-194x300.png 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the periodic bloodshed continues in the Middle East, the search for an equitable solution must come to grips with the root cause of the conflict. The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational \"terrorists\" who have no point of view worth listening to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our position, however, is that the Palestinians have a real grievance: their homeland for over a thousand years was taken, without their consent and mostly by force, during creation of the state of Israel. And all subsequent crimes\u2014on both sides\u2014inevitably follow from this original injustice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This paper outlines the history of Palestine to show how this process occurred and what a moral solution to the region's problems should consist of. If you care about the people of the Middle East, Jewish and Arab, you owe it to yourself to read this account of the other side of the historical record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plain text version: <a href=\"httpss:\/\/www.wrmea.org\/jews-for-justice\/the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-conflict.html\">https:\/\/www.wrmea.org\/jews-for-justice\/the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-conflict.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Download a PDF for two-sided printing below:<\/p>\n\n\n        <div id=\"ep-gutenberg-content-8e321ae33bae700757d647e40fbfd962\" class=\"ep-gutenberg-content aligncenter ep-percentage-width ep-content-share-enabled ep-share-position-right ep-content-protection-disabled\" data-embed-type=\"PDF\" data-embed-url=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/The-Origin-of-the-Palestine-Israel-Conflict.pdf\">\n            <div class=\"embedpress-inner-iframe 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The conventional wisdom is that, even if both sides are at fault, the Palestinians are irrational &#8220;terrorists&#8221; who have no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[948],"tags":[1519,1518],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-7440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-jews-for-justice-in-the-middle-east","tag-the-origin-of-the-palestine-israel-conflict-book"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sam Bahour<\/strong> is a Palestinian-American business consultant, writer, and commentator based in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He is the principal of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aim.ps\/\">Applied Information Management (AIM)<\/a>, a consultancy specializing in business development and startup advisory services.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour played a foundational role in establishing two of Palestine\u2019s publicly traded companies: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He co-founded Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy (A4VPE), of which he is now an emeritus member, and served as an independent director on the board of Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. from 2004 to 2025. He currently serves on the board of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.justvision.org\/\">Just Vision<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.ps\">The Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute (MAS)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He frequently gives talks to delegations visiting Palestine on the subjects of Palestine\u2019s political economy, Palestinian Politics 101, and a general orientation to the state of affairs under Israeli military occupation.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A prolific writer on Palestinian affairs, Bahour has been published in major international outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, Haaretz, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera America, Le Monde diplomatique, Al-Monitor, +972 Magazine, The Hill, and Arab News. He has appeared as a commentator on NPR, CNN, BBC, and other broadcast media.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bahour is the co-editor of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Homeland-Oral-Histories-Palestine-Palestinians\/dp\/1566561329\/ref=la_B00HBW71SO_1_1\">Homeland: Oral Histories of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993) and was profiled in the bestselling anthology <em><a href=\"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2017\/06\/epalestine-kingdom-of-olives-and-ash\/\">Kingdom of Olives and Ash<\/a><\/em>, edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, in a chapter authored by Chabon titled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/the-tallest-man-in-ramallah\/\">The Tallest Man in Ramallah<\/a>.\u201d He holds an Associate\u2019s and Bachelor\u2019s degree in Computer Technology from Youngstown State University, and a Kellogg-Recanati International Executive MBA \u2014 a joint program of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and the Recanati Business School at Tel Aviv University.<\/p>\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He tweets at <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SamBahour\">@SamBahour<\/a>, blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epalestine.ps\">www.epalestine.ps<\/a>, and may be reached at sbahour[AT]gmail[DOT]com.<\/p>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7440"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9988,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7440\/revisions\/9988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7440"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=7440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}