Because of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, wars and violence ripped the Middle East for many decades. Most people are not aware of the reasons behind the ongoing fighting between Israelis and Palestinians in the Land of Peace: Palestine. The following is a summary of the main stages of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the last hundred years. In last decades of 19th century, the Zionist movement was very active in Europe. The Zionists called for establishing a national home for the Jews in Palestine depending on vague historical claims. Logically, Jews around the world today had no right to claim…

Many readers of Antiwar.com have wondered why they have seen no new articles from me in more than 6 weeks.  The answer is that I was battling heart and other health issues that nearly took my life.  At one point, my principal cardiologist told my wife that I was unlikely to make it out of the hospital.  Subsequently, I spent 3 weeks in the Intensive Care Unit trying to prove him wrong.  Fortunately, I survived the crisis and am now on the road to (a slow) recovery. All of this was taking place as the war between Israel and Hamas continued to rage.  Instead…

Tensions on the Israeli-Lebanese border appear to be in serious danger of escalating into a full-scale conflict. While earlier, everyone was expecting a Hezbollah attack, and it was thought that Israel was trying to avoid opening a second front in the north, now Israel is already declaring its readiness to start a war in southern Lebanon.  According to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, if the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah fighters do not withdraw beyond the Litani River, the IDF will not hesitate to take military action against them. The Times has previously reported that Israel has a plan to invade southern Lebanon. The…

Frantz avait bien dormi mais deux heures avant l'aube, il s'était réveillé avec une conscience aigue du lapsus qui existait à présent entre lui et sa femme, il avait longuement réfléchi et avait mûri une décision "Je ne lui dirais toujours rien et je ne mentirais pas si je lui dirais que la princesse Russe a une ressemblance frappante avec une personne que j'ai croisé à Camberra et avec laquelle…

Ukrainian-born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856-1927), whose pen name was Ahad Ha’Am (Hebrew for one of the people), was a proponent of Spiritual, or Cultural, Zionism, which made him a rival to Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism, the movement dedicated to creating a nation-state in Palestine for all Jewish people worldwide. Ahad Ha’Am remains relevant to understanding the roots of the conflict in Palestine and Israel that has cost so many innocent lives. Hans Kohn, a Bohemian-born American writer, shed light on Ahad Ha’Am’s thinking about the “Arab problem” for Herzl’s movement in “Zion and the Jewish National Idea,” published in Menorah Journal, Autumn-Winter 1958. (The…