History of Israel, from 1850-present

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History of Israel, from 1850-present
 
Here are some essays on the history of
the Land of Israel, "Eretz Yisroel".
Essays in italics are still being worked on.    
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Political Mythology

  # The History and Meaning of the words "Palestine" and "Palestinians",  which means "Sea Invader"
  # Politically motivated mythology of "Palestine"
  # Myths of the Middle East
  # More Myths of the Middle East
  # A Photographic Tour of the Holy Land 1831-1910

Biblical History

    * Background: Timeline of "Palestine" 1273 BCE to 1948
    * The Land of Israel, map of the inheritance of the 12 tribes
    * Jewish forms of Government: the interplay of "Church and State"
    * Persian (Iranian) assistance in rebuilding the Jewish Temple
    * Non-Jewish worship in the Temple "House of Prayer for all people"
    * Traditional Jewish Views on Religious Tolerance
    * The Maccabees, Hasmonean dynasty and Herod until 135CE
    * Jonathan Hyrcanus and the conversion of Syria and Jordan to Judaism
    * Maps of Jewish "holy sites", the final resting places of Rabbis in Israel, Jordan and Syria
    * History of Israel, an Overview

4th-7th centuries, The Jewish Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    * After the destruction of the second Temple, the Jews fled to Arabia
    * Medina, Islam's second holiest city, was originally a Jewish "settlement"
    * The Islamic Crescent was originally a Jewish Symbol
    * One thousand years of Jewish-Persian (Iranian) alliance, 4th BCE-7th CE
    * Himyar - The Jewish Kingdom of Arabia 390-626 CE, decimated by the rise of Islam
    * The Byzantine-Ethiopian conquest of Himyar and the beginnings of the Falashah Jewish community of Ethiopia

7th Century, The rise of the faith of Islam

    * The Prophet Muhamed, a Jewish pseudo-Messiah
    * Islam as a form of Judaism, a continuation of the Jewish Prophets.
    * Islamic 'endtimes' theology requires the restoration of Jews to their homeland and Arab assistance in rebuilding the Jewish temple
    * Quotes from the Qu'ran and Hadith about Jews, Jerusalem and Israel

8th-13th centuries, The Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria

    * Fleeing Islam, Jewish nationalists headed to Southern Russia
    * The rise of the powerful Jewish Convert Kingdom of Khazaria 786-1237 CE
    * Wars between Khazaria and Islam, stopping the expansion of Islam into Russia
    * Movement of Khazarian Jews and converts as refugees to the Ukraine in the 12th CE

8th-16th centuries, Islamic conquest and expansion

    * Continuous Jewish Presence in the Holy Land (Samuel Katz)
    * Continuous Jewish Presence in the Holy Land (Peters)
    * The Qur'an (Koran) & institutionalized anti-Semitism
    * Religious Persecution of Jews by Arabs
    * Throwing Stones at Jews is based in Ancient Islamic Ritual
    * Forced conversions in the Islamic conquests
    * The forced conversion of the Jewish community of Persia and the beginnings of the Kurds
    * An appeal to Moslems of Jewish descent
    * Non-Arab and/or non-Muslims in the "Arab" world
    * The Islamic claim to the Temple Mount is very recent, since 1930
    * The name Al-Quds is an abbreviation for "The Jewish Temple"

14th-19th Jewish Semi-Autonomy, Migration and Expulsions

    * A History of the Jews, a list of expulsions for 2000 years
    * Rise of European Nationalism: Expulsion from Spain to Chmielnicki massacres
    * Messianic hope and rise of Shabbetai Zvi and his conversion to Islam 1626-1676
    * Awakening in the Christian world in support of a Jewish Restoration 1830-1930

1850-1920 Restoration of the Jewish Homeland and Arab-Jewish cooperation

    * Descriptive Geography and Brief Historical Sketch of Palestine, 1850
    * Ottoman Rule Map (Eve of W.W.I), 1516 to 1917
    * British Mandate Map 1920-1946
    * British Administrative Division Map 1922 - 1946
    * Palestine was inhabited by a mixed population
    * Palestine, a land virtually laid waste with little population
    * Bareness and oppression of Palestine due to feudal system of taxes by absentee Arab Landowners
    * Joint Arab-Jewish agreement on Jewish Homeland, between Emir Feisal Husseini and Dr. Weizmann, January 3, 1918
    * Jewish proposal for Jewish Homeland, presented to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
    * Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence, further to Arab proposal for Jewish Homeland, March 3, 1919

1920-1948 The British Mandate for Palestine

    * Document: An Interim Report on the Civil Administration of Palestine to the League of Nations, June 1921, on the condition of Palestine
    * Evidence of Haj Amin al-Husseini Before the Royal Commission in 1937 stating Jewish land was legally purchased from Arabs
    * The Myth of Palestinian Nationalism, narrowly defined, anti-Semitism
    * Arabs in, Jews out: Britain's role in trying to create an artificial Arab majority in Palestine 1920-1948
    * British Plans against France, and against the Jews in 1915
    * Britain, Haj Husseini and the Arab Riots of 1920
    * British Efforts Against the Nascent Israeli State, in 1948
    * The proposed partition of Western Palestine in 1938 & The British Policy of Appeasement
    * The Struma & The unmitigated policy of the British against Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler's war against them
    * Britain's Partition Map 1946
    * U.N. Partition Plan Map 1947
    * Document: Official British Police Report Regarding Jews' Appeal to Arabs to NOT leave Haifa in 1948
    * The Arab Invasion of 1948

1948 Arab and Jewish refugees

    * Palestinian Refugees, invited to leave in 1948
    * How many Palestinians Refugees? inflating the numbers
    * Arab-Jewish Refugees, the other Middle Eastern Refugee problem
    * Exchange of Populations
    * Why are Palestinian Refugees treated differently than all other refugees in the world?
    * Legal Background to the "Palestinian Right of Return"

1948-1967 Early Israeli History

    * Armistice Agreements Map 1949
    * Fedayeen Raids Map 1951 - 1956
    * The Sinai Campaign Map 1956
    * Palestinian Refugees, unlike other refugees in the world, were denied resettlement opportunities, for political reasons
    * A collection of historical quotations relating to the Arab refugees
    * History of Jordan, Jordan as Palestine & Two states for two people, Jordan must contribute
    * The Communist - atheist - anti-religious roots of Israeli's political "Left"

1967-1984 Later Israeli History

    * Position of Arab Forces Map 1967
    * Six Day War Map - June 1967
    * Cease Fire Lines Map 1967
    * Discrediting Jewish Refugees from Arab Countries, Official Arab "Invitation" for Jews to return, 1970-1977
    * "Palestinian" as an Arab ethnic group is a modern political creation since 1967
    * Palestinians only one politicized segment of the larger problem of state-less, citizenship-less migrant workers of the Middle East
    * Who are the Palestinians?
    * Record of the United Nations, why is it so anti-Israel
    * Jewish Settlements are Legal according to International Law
    * Egyptian Attack Map 1973
    * Syrian Attack Map 1973

1984-2000 The Olso Years and the rise of Arabic-Islamic Nationalism

    * The First Oslo Agreements, 1993-1995
    * U.S. House of Representatives: Task Force on Terrorism, 1996
    * Al Aksa Tunnel Riots of 1996
    * Corruption within the Palestinian Authority, 1997; PLO has $10b in assets
    * U.S. House of Representatives: The Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction Challenge - Myths and Reality, 1998
    * Peace with Jordan
    * The Wye Agreement - November 1998
    * Sharm Agreement, 50% Withdrawal, 1999
    * Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon, May 2000
    * Proposed 80% Withdrawal, May 2000
    * Proposed 95% Withdrawal, July 2000
    * Israel's Compromise on it's "Red Lines", Camp David II
    * Proposal for dividing Jerusalem, Camp David II, Taba
    * Relative sizes of areas in Middle East
    * Israel size comparison maps
    * Graphs of Increase in Terror and Crime since Oslo
    * Arafat's Strategy: Lebanonization and Entanglement
    * The rise of Israel's Oriental Jews (Sefardim), Israel's shift away from secularism

Arabic settlement policy in the West Bank and Gaza

    * The West Bank population under Jordanian rule 1948-1967
    * Draft Report of Arab Settlement Activity in the West Bank (261 settlements since 1950)
    * Illegal Arab immigration into "Palestine" - part of Oslo
    * Arab Population in the West Bank & Gaza - THE MILLION-AND-A-HALF PERSON GAP

2000-present The Multi-Media War

    * Erasing Jewish History, Destruction of the Temple Mount
    * The Main Reason for the Present Middle East Conflict: ISLAM not "The Territories"
    * Who Started the Al Aksa Intifada? List of events of Temple Mount Destruction in June, until Ariel Sharon's visit in September
    * "How PA Violence was planned", Report by Palestinian Media Watch
    * Palestinian Authority Communications Minister says Al Aksa Intifada was planned since July (for six months)
    * Breakdown of casualties during the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
    * "Palestinians" killing "Palestinians"
    * Who killed Muhammad al-Dura?
    * I am a Jew. I am a poet. I am heartbroken
    * Document: Israeli Government White Paper on PA/PLO non-compliance
    * Document: Israel's Preliminary Report To the Mitchell Inquiry
    * Journalists describe constant Palestinian intimidation
    * Why Israel Newspapers are the most anti-Israel in the world
    * History of Israel's Broadcasting Authority: a Politically Left-leaning (Relativistic, Revisionist) Ideological Entity
    * Media Bias: CNN and others are misreporting the news
    * CNN, BBC and others in fierce competition for lucrative, emerging Middle Eastern Markets

Muftism, Nazism, Communism and Traditional Anti-Semitism give birth to Islamism, 1917-present

    * The new Arab "identity" derives from the impact of the West in the last fifty years
    * Wahhabism, the Saudi Arabia-based puritanical heresy at the base of Islamism
    * Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem
    * Muftism and Nazism: World War II Collaboration Documents
    * Bosnian Moslems recruited the Nazi SS by Yasser Arafat's 'Uncle'
    * Turning the West Bank into another "Bosnia" (Photo Album)
    * The Farhud, the Mufti inspired Krystallnacht in Iraq, 1941
    * A "Fatwa " Issued by Haj Amin al-Husseini in Iraq, pro-Nazi coup May, 1941
    * The Syrian-Iraqi Baath party and its Nazi beginnings
    * The Roots of Muslim Rage: Why so many Muslims deeply resent the West, and why their bitterness will not easily be mollified
    * The history of the PLO and the International Legitimization of Terrorism
    * History of Fedayeen, PLO, Fatah, PFLP, PFLP-GC, DFLP, etc Militant Palestinian Groups
    * Saddam Hussein, nephew of Khayrallah Tulfah, of the 1941 Pro-Nazi coup in Iraq
    * Hitler and the Arabs, How could they have missed it?
    * A technique of propaganda called "Turnspeak"
    * Arafat's use of "Turnspeak" to say Israel causes terrorism
    * Yasser Arafat's Biography
    * Yasser Arafat worthy successor to Haj Muhammad Amin al Husseini
    * Yassir Arafat, 1929-2004
    * Islamic Sermons on Temple Mount by the grandson of the Haj Amin al-Husseini, 2000

After World Trade Center bombing, Sept 11, 2001

    * Al Qaeda Training Manual (United States Department of Justice Website)
    * Israeli Government uses PsyOps on Settlers (Government pursuing appeasement of terrorists policy)
    * Israeli Government Violations of the Civil Rights Of Opponents of Disengagement (Israel Policy Center)

Other Essays

    * Catholic Views on Israel, Dealing with the theological problems of a successful Jewish State, illustrating growing moderation and tolerance
    * The Roots of Anti-Judaism in the Christian Environment
    * Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem

Rabbi Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
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