Zionism
About the Israel - Palestinian Conflict
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, “in the name of God, let Palestine be left alone.” Thus Rashid Khalidi, al-Khalidi’s great-great-nephew, begins this sweeping history, the first general account of the conflict told from an explicitly Palestinian perspective.
Drawing on a wealth of untapped archival materials and the reports of generations of family members—mayors, judges, scholars, diplomats, and journalists—The Hundred Years' War on Palestine upends accepted interpretations of the conflict, which tend, at best, to describe a tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same territory. Instead, Khalidi traces a hundred years of colonial war on the Palestinians, waged first by the Zionist movement and then Israel, but backed by Britain and the United States, the great powers of the age. He highlights the key episodes in this colonial campaign, from the 1917 Balfour Declaration to the destruction of Palestine in 1948, from Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon to the endless and futile peace process.
Original, authoritative, and important, The Hundred Years' War on Palestine is not a chronicle of victimization, nor does it whitewash the mistakes of Palestinian leaders or deny the emergence of national movements on both sides. In reevaluating the forces arrayed against the Palestinians, it offers an illuminating new view of a conflict that continues to this day.
The Future is Peace -- Aziz Abu Sarah & Maoz Inon
“[A] short but immensely poignant account of a shared journey across Israel and the West Bank . . . raw with pain and rage and yet bravely insistent on the imperative of hope.”—The New York Times
“We do not see ourselves as Palestinians and Israelis, or as Jews and Arabs, but as human beings who believe in fostering a culture of dialogue, a culture of forgiveness, and a culture of peace. To those who see only division lines, we say: If you must divide us, let it be as those who believe in peace and equality and those who don’t … yet.”
School Bombing in Minab, Iran
![The aftermath of an Israel strike on a school in Minab, Iran [Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA via Reuters (Al Jazeera – March 3, 2026)]](https://primary.jwwb.nl/public/x/c/q/temp-sdsxcuaxjrfmgwrgpujm/school-bombing-standard.jpg?enable-io=true&enable=upscale&crop=1.6292%3A1%2Coffset-y0&width=800)
The aftermath of an Israel strike on a school in Minab, Iran [Abbas Zakeri/Mehr News/WANA via Reuters (Al Jazeera – March 3, 2026)]
This article appeared on the Al Jazeera website on March 3, 2026. It is straightforward and convincingly documented.
It appears that the US government, as well as the Israeli government engaged in a deliberate act of terrorism resulting in the murder of 165 innocent civilians, mostly girls between the ages of 7 to 12 in southeastern Iran.
What's even more disturbing about this article is that it appears that this policy of terrorism on innocent civilians has been carried on for some time now by our (US) government, as well as by the Israeli government.
Below is Google Gemini's definition of "state terrorism":
State terrorism is the systematic use of violence, intimidation, and terror tactics by a government against its own population or foreign citizens to achieve political objectives, maintain power, or suppress dissent. It involves state agents performing acts like extrajudicial killings, torture, and forced disappearances.
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Key aspects of state terrorism include:
Direct Perpetration: Unlike state-sponsored terrorism (where states support non-state actors), state terrorism is carried out directly by government agents.
If this Al Jazeera story is true, it appears that we Americans are citizens of an official terrorist state. If that is true, what the moral implications for us American citizens?
The definition of terrorism stated above leads to another disturbing implication: The policy of state terrorism stated above bears a strong resemblance to what ICE was trying to get away with in Minneapolis last month. This implication is further strengthened by Kristi Noem's insistence on labeling Renee Good and Alex Pretti as "domestic terrorists". This resembles the well known tactic of blaming the victim for the crime committed against them.
The Heroes in Southern Lebanon
The term “hero” is greatly overused (or abused) these days. But in this 6-minute clip from PBS Newshour, dated March 25, medical workers in Nabih Berri Hospital in the war area in southern Lebanon are interviewed and their unceasing effort to provide vital medical care to the local citizens is documented. Dr. Ali Omeis and Dr. Hassan Wazni are among those heroes. It is unsafe for them to go home to their families at night, so they sleep in the hospital. They mention that Israeli bombs landed close to their hospital recently, and they know that they might be the next potential targets of a deliberate Israeli bomb strike. Despite that, they have made it clear that they intend to stay on the job and continue providing vital medical care at this endangered hospital. This is exceptional courage, selflessness and empathy. These medical workers are true heroes, and they have my total admiration and respect.