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British diplomat John Holmes seen alongside a military officer during a tribal lunch at a cavalry post in Tel al-Meleiha, 20 miles north of Be'er Sheba, January 18, 1940. (Library of Congress)

A century later, Trump’s deal for Palestine is no better than Britain’s

The British left Palestine in 1948 with their tail between their legs, having laid the groundwork for 100 years of conflict. With people like Trump and Kushner leading the way, we should expect nothing better for our own century. By Jonathan Adler The White House revealed last weekend that the “Deal of the Century,” the administration’s plan…

By +972 Magazine May 28, 2019

Photo from the Kadoorie Agricultural School, Tulkarm. (Photo Schwartz collection)

The unknown history of the Palestinian school funded by an Iraqi Jew

Ellis Kadoorie hoped that by establishing an agricultural school in Tulkarm, he would be helping to educate and improve the conditions of Palestinians and Jews alike. Little did he know it would become a microcosm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. By Tamar Novick and Arie M. Dubnov The Kadoorie Agricultural School holds a special place in Israeli…

By Haokets February 25, 2017

A young Bedouin watches as a bullzdozer rented by his family demolishes their own home in the recognized village Sawa, Negev Desert, December 23, 2014. (photo: Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org)

Negev Bedouin are now demolishing their own homes out of despair

After losing a lengthy legal battle against the state, residents of the unrecognized Bedouin village Sawa decided that demolishing their own homes is preferable to seeing the authorities do it. By Michal Rotem On Tuesday of last week, the residents of Sawa, an unrecognized Bedouin village in the Negev Desert, used their own money to…

By +972 Magazine December 26, 2014

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Nelson Mandela (photo: South Africa The Good News / www.sagoodnews.co.za)

Mandela: I was inspired by Begin’s struggle against the British

Mandela’s statements about Begin on the one hand and Arafat on the other should make just about everyone uncomfortable. In Chapter 42 of his autobiography “Long Walk to Freedom,” Nelson Mandela describes how, in 1961, he began forming the African National Congress’ (ANC) military wing to launch guerrilla attacks on the apartheid regime. “I, who had…

By Larry Derfner December 11, 2013

Palestinian activists break a hole in the Israeli Separation Wall dividing land belonging to the West Bank town of Al Khader in the late night hours of November 22, 2013. (photo: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Activestills.org)

Photos of the week: A light through the wall

This week: more holes in the separation wall, protests against the Prawer-Begin Plan, tear gas in Nabi Saleh, a Palestinian passport for a Palestinian citizen, soldier protect settler activists, solidarity with Palestine at the UN, marching against violence against women, Greenpeace targets GMOs in Israeli supermarkets, and clashes after Israeli forces kill three Palestinian militants. …

By Activestills November 28, 2013

Palestinian shepherd in Um Faqara prevented from reaching his land by IDF soldiers August 2012 (Activestills)

Overplaying the ‘terrorism’ card

The reaction to this week’s killings of two IDF soldiers showed that Israel’s moral condemnation of deliberate civilian killings is a tactic, no more. The most powerful argument Israel makes in its campaign to paint the Palestinians as the bad guys and itself as the good guy is to point out that Palestinians…

By Larry Derfner September 24, 2013

WATCH: This land belongs to me. And you. And them. Oh, and those guys

Growing up and living in Jewish towns in Israel (Haifa, Ra’anana, Tel Aviv, Givatayim and now Bat Yam), my Yom Kippurs were always of the quiet kind. Silent streets, clean air and kids riding bikes. But on this Kippur, I ventured into Jaffa and saw another world. Maybe the real world? It was noisy as…

By Ami Kaufman October 7, 2012