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POINT OF VIEW
AND THINGS
richard lightner
Apr 12 min read
Palestine-100 years
Rashid Khalidi. The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: a history of settler colonialism and resistance, 1917-2017 . Theodor Herzl set foot...
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richard lightner
Mar 141 min read
Before the Nakba
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/palestine-before-the-nakba/
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richard lightner
Mar 41 min read
Israeli Control
https://theintercept.com/2024/03/03/israel-our-palestine-question-zionism-american-jews/
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richard lightner
Feb 262 min read
ISRAEL IN DENIAL
One of the architects of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine “remained unmoved by the sight of tractors destroying whole villages.” To the...
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richard lightner
Feb 221 min read
Nakba
The reason the Zionist forces gave for looting was that they were searching for weapons. (307) They arrested Arabs for no reason. (308)...
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richard lightner
Feb 193 min read
Ilan Pappe
“The entry of the Jordanian Arab Legion into the fighting changed the picture, and the cleansing operations were halted in the middle of...
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richard lightner
Feb 152 min read
More from Ilan Pappe
Ben-Gurion and the other Zionists portrayed the Palestinians and Nazis in order to motivate their soldiers. (125) The Zionists chose...
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richard lightner
Feb 122 min read
More Ethnic Cleansing
Destroyed Arab villages were turned into Jewish sites: schools, parks, housing. Ben-Gurion refused to condemn Irgun terrorist actions....
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richard lightner
Feb 82 min read
ZIONIST ATROCITIES
The Palestinians wanted more negotiation with the UN and the Zionists and, did not want to partition Palestine. “The Partition Resolution...
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richard lightner
Feb 52 min read
ZIONIST DUPLICITY
The Zionists upset the traditional relationships of people with the land. A new landowner never evicted the farmers working the land. But...
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richard lightner
Feb 22 min read
Reality of Zionism
The following is also from Ilan Pappe's, Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine. The Zionists justified their war against the Palestinians. “We...
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richard lightner
Jan 311 min read
New Historians
Ilan Pappe is one of the "New Historians" of Israel. He and the others challenge the false narrative of Zionism and Israeli history....
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richard lightner
Jan 291 min read
Islam
“The Quran is the central theophany of Islam, the verbatim Word of God revealed to the Prophet by the archangel Gabriel and transmitted...
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richard lightner
Jan 261 min read
Islam
“Most people in the West automatically identify Muslims with Arabs. Today, however, Arabs compose about a fifth of the world Muslim...
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richard lightner
Jan 241 min read
Islam
“The Islamic revelation is the third and final revelation of the Abrahamic monotheistic cycle.” “Nearly all Muslims belong to one of...
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richard lightner
Jan 222 min read
Islam
Sayed Hossein Nasr. Islam: religion, history, and civilization. Western Islam “experts” have “various prejudices and ideological biases....
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