The retrospective history of
West Asia as a whole
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The history in general of West Asia as
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The history of Ancient West Asia
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The Palestinian Catastrophy of 1948
The 1967 War and its aftermath
The history of the Gulf War
(1991)
- Review of Fred Feldman and Georges Sayad, Palestine And The Arabs' Fight For Liberation
- In The Militant, 25 August 1997.
An overview of the Palestinian struggle as part of the fight
against colonialism and imperialist oppression in the Middle
East. It spans the period from the opening of World War I
to the intifada, or uprising, of the Palestinian people that
began in December 1987.
- Abdullah The First
- Mid-East Realities, 11 May 1999.
Early in 1914, Lord Kitchener, had a visit from the son of
the leading member of the Hashemite family, the traditional
guardians
of Islam's holiest sites. And the Middle
East has never been the same again; the meeting had a decisive
influence on the entire history of the Middle East throughout
the rest of the century. In a sense, the Arab world has never
freed itself from the shackles and intriques that began with
the Hashemite-British alliance at this time.
- Turks Come to Town to Give the Other Side of
'Genocide'
- By Nora Boustany, The Washington Post,
6 October 2000. Five members of the Turkish Grand National
Assembly came to Washington to lobby Congress against passage
of a proposed House resolution endorsing charges of genocide by
Turkish soldiers against Armenian civilians in 1915-21. While
many died on both sides as the Ottoman Empire disintegrated,
there is no evidence of a systematic intentional slaughter,
even in terms of first-person accounts from Armenian survivors.
- The Rape of Palestine
- The Mid-East Realities, 13 April
1998. A Zionist article from the Israeli press that clarifies
the history of 1948. Jewish national independence wouldn't
serve the British masters the way the Arab puppets did, for
their corruptability made them easy to control. So Britain
in 1930s resisted attempts to settle large numbers of Jews
in Palestine. Since the Moslem Mufti leaders were too
accomodating of Jews, the British had to create a radical
Arab opposition to the Zionists.
- Gandhi on Jews, Arabs, and Palestine
- Mid-East Realities, [4 December 2000].
Prophetic words of Mohatma Gandhi in 1938 on the Palestinian
situation. His sympathy for the suffering of Jews did not blind
him to the requirements of justice. The cry for the national
home for the Jews does did not much appeal to him, having
only Biblical sanction. He wonders why should they not,
like other peoples of the earth, make that country their
home where they are born and where they earn their
livelihood?
- A brief history of the occupation
- From Sadu Nanjundiah, 8 September 2001. Salient facts
concerning the history of land possession during the thirty
years of British occupation (1917-1937), the U.N. endorsement of
Zionist goals, and the era of Israeli aggression and expansion
after 1949.