You’re probably heard people debate whether they think that a one-state solution or a two-state solution is a better way to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. In a one-state solution, all the land of Israel proper plus the occupied territories of Gaza, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights would come under a [...]
It’s sort of ironic that after the failure of the 2000 Camp David Accords, the prevailing opinion in the western media was that Yasir Arafat missed his last chance for obtaining a Palestinian state. Under the direction of Bill Cliinton, Ehud Barak supposedly offered Arafat a deal that nobody in their right mind should have [...]
This map shows what is referred to as the West Bank. The term literally means “the land that is on the West Bank of the Jordan River”. In 1948, there was a war between the Jews and the Palestinians in Palestine. The Jews won this war and refer to it as their War of Independence. [...]
I watched a movie today called “The Cup Final”. It takes place in 1982 in Lebanon during the Israeli invasion and follows the story of an Israeli soldier “Cohen” who is taken prisoner by a band of Palestinian freedom fighters who attempt to bring him to Beirut in order to ransom him. During the journey [...]