• The Jewish Advocate : This land was theirs

    By Hannah Mermelstein – Sunday March 23 2008 On March 20, 1941, Yosef Weitz of the Jewish National Fund wrote: “The complete evacuation of the country from its other inhabitants and handing it over to the Jewish people is the answer.” On this day in 1948, almost two months before the first “Arab-Israeli war” technically began, the 1,125 inhabitants of the Palestinian village Umm Khalid fled a Haganah military operation. Like their brethren from more than…

  • House Confiscation in Old City Hebron

    On Thursday, March 20 and Friday the 21st the Israeli army invaded a family’s home in Hebron. International and Palestinian Human Rights Workers were able to stall them for one day, but on Friday they returned, evicted the family, confiscated the house, and welded the door shut to prevent anyone from returning. In the process, they also arrested the owner of the house and one Palestinian HRW.

  • JPOST: PA urges Palestinians to ‘return’

    Original article published in the Jerusalem Post on March 18th. For original article click here The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel’s 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air. The plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister for Prisoners’ Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians have decided to implement United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the…

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