Looking at Palestine from Zion

This episode takes on the claim that Jews were tolerated and thrived under Islam and therefore there is no need for a Jewish state in the region.

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The passages from Hillel Cohen and Rashid Khalidi and Abu Iyad can be found:

Abu Iyad: My Home My Land pg. 33-34

Khalidi: The Iron Cage pg. 60-62

Cohen: 1929 (Hebrew Version) pg. 152-155

I share my response to Pappe's claim that population transfer was a deeply embedded pillar of the Zionist program and ideology. He leaves out major figures and important works to reach his conclusions that I find libelous.

An exploration of the discussion of the practice of tearing (קריעה) upon seeing the cities of Judah in their destruction as a contra to the common anti-Zionist claim that Jewish communal identity was solely religious before the end of 19th century. In fact we can see longing for Jewish sovereignty in classic works of halachah (Jewish law) hundreds of years before the advent of modern Zionism.

This episode begins an analysis of Ilan Pappe's book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. It documents the ethnic cleansing of Jews that took place during the three decades that preceded Israel's War of Independence (which Palestinians commonly call the Nakba) and during the war itself.

Selected Bibliography:

Shabtai Zecharia, Unkown Jerusalem (Hebrew Book)

Reuven Gafni: A Hebrew Spot in Beit Shean (Hebrew Book); Lone Jewish Medical Personnel in Arab Towns; The Jewish Presence in Jericho during the British Mandate Period (Hebrew Article); The Jewish Presence in Nazareth (Hebrew Article); Jewish Communities on the Periphery (Hebrew Article); Emek Arazim (Hebrew Article).

Elad Ben Dror, The Last Guardian of the First Hebrew Village, Yitzchak Ben Tzvi and Peki'in (Hebrew Article)

Hillel Cohen, 1929 (I used the Hebrew Book though there is an English translation)