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Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Dushinsky testifying before the UN committee

The following are excerpts (1 posted) of written testimony submitted in person to the United Nations Special Committee in Palestine Wednesday, July 16, 1947 by the Chief Rabbis of the Ashkenasic Jewish Community, Rav Yosef Zvi Dushinsky and Rav Zelig Ruven Bengis of blessed memory, taken from the United Nations Trusteeship Library.…

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With the start of new U.S.-brokered direct talks between Palestinians and Israelis, IPS presents a collection of articles, insider accounts, and documents covering the negotiations, from Madrid through Annapolis, over the past two decades. Throughout the period, the issues to be resolved remain the same, including settlements, Jerusalem,… Continue

I am part of the load

Not rightly balanced

I drop off in the grass,

like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse

wherever I fall.

For…

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Celebrating The Land; Celebrating Palestine

By Reham Alhelsi



30 March, 2010

Avoicefrompalestine

The Palestinian calendar is full of special days. Growing up, day after day and year after year, we were…

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Of Course Israel Sees Nobel Prize Laureates and Prominent Figures as Militants



By BATOUL WEHBE



Israel created deep discomfort in the West after Mossad agents used fake European passports to assassinate senior Hamas member Mahmoud El-Mabhouh earlier this year in Dubai.



And today, Israel committed a massacre in international waters when its navy commandos stormed the Gaza-bound aid ships and killed at least 19 unarmed activists. 700 Arab and European activists… Continue