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(Video) Map of Holy Land – 1709

‘Canaan, Palestine or The Holy Land’.   http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30286.htm

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October 7, 1940: The Day That Should Have Lived in Infamy

Truth Excavator      October 10, 2010 On October 7, 1940, exactly fourteen months before the infamous attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Lieutenant Commander Arthur H. McCollum penned a memorandum, recommending that the United States government provoke the Japanese into attacking America, and thus, allowing America to enter WWII with the American people fully [...]

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A Brief History of Intolerance in America

photo-gallery http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2011978_2179331,00.html

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Israel tells schools not to teach nakba

Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent The Nation - Sunday, August 22, 2010 NAZARETH // Government officials warned Israeli teachers last week not to cooperate with a civic group that seeks to educate Israelis about how the Palestinians view the loss of their homeland and the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. Israel’s education ministry issued [...]

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FAQ on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions

IMEU  -  August 11, 2010 What is BDS? What are the goals of BDS? Who is calling for BDS? What are some examples of how BDS was used during Apartheid in South Africa? What is the call for academic and cultural boycott of Israel? Who are some of the people endorsing the Palestinian-led BDS campaign? Who [...]

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Amazing Map of Middle East

This is an amazing, constantly changing map of the Middle East region, illustrating how various “empires” have risen and fallen in the past 5000 years. See it all in just 90 seconds. see it here: http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/EMPIRE17.swf

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Cultural history of the Crusades in 2010 United States

by Zainab Cheema Zainab Cheema, a free-lance writer, gets featured on Media Monitors Network (MMN) with the courtesy of Crescent International. Media Monitors Network -  July 7, 2010 Crusade — a word caught between the lexicon of pedestrian, every day use and the charged memories of civilizational struggle. The mixed history of the Crusades is itself caught [...]

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Israel’s Attack on Egypt in ’67 was not ‘Preemptive’

- Jeremy R. Hammond is an independent journalist and editor of Foreign Policy Journal. He was among the recipients of the 2010 Project Censored Awards for outstanding investigative journalism, and is the author of “The Rejection of Palestinian Self-Determination”, available from Amazon.com. Visit: http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com. Palestine Chronicle    July 4, 2010 It is often claimed that Israel’s [...]

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The roots of Israeli exceptionalism

By Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti Mohamed El-Moctar El-Shinqiti is an author in political history and history of religion. He is a research coordinator at Qatar Foundation. Uruknet.info – June 27, 2010 An American academic once told me: “Many people in the Islamic world think America does not believe in human rights, but they are wrong; America [...]

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Joseph Massad: The language of Zionism

Al-Ahram Weekly – 7 May 2010 The reason for the ongoing “violence” in Israel and Palestine is not on account of Israeli colonialism at all but rather a direct result of mistranslation. Joseph Massad* provides an abridged lexicon of Zionist terminology “Colonialism is peace; anti-colonialism is war.” This is the unalterable equation that successive Israeli [...]

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The Arabs, weak by choice <==

The history of the Arab League since its inception in 1944 suggests that the Arab regimes have long chosen to be weak and irrelevant. Hasan Afif El-Hasan* Al Ahram Weekly - 7 May 2010 Nation states in the area from Morocco to Iraq, including the Arabian Peninsula, share a distinct culture and history and speak Arabic, [...]

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Video : Norman Finkelstein — Zionism’s Version of History

Interview by Alan Hart Alan Hart is a former ITN and BBC Panorama foreign correspondent who covered wars and conflicts wherever they were taking place in the world and specialized in the Middle East. Author of Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews: The False Messiah (Zionism, the Real Enemy of the Jews). He blogs [...]

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