Diplomats, politicians and activists alike have long laboured under the assumption that a two-state solution is the only path to peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. But as this goal has not come to fruition, and the ever-elusive scepter of peace slips further from reach, violence and instability deepen.

A rare and detailed map showing features of their important region collated from several references.

The lands where the refugees were deprived from returning to or seeing.

A review of Palestinian life before 1948 showing its topography, its town and villages, plantation, costumes, transport and communication, Jerusalem doorways and streets.

Tell el Qadi is the location in northern Palestine, astride the border of Palestine with Syria and Lebanon, where the Canaanites, the early Palestinians, built one of the first arches in history, 3000 years ago. Its invention was a revolution because, at earlier times, all roofing, which was built using tree trunks, was destroyed or burnt. The arch enabled roofing to be built in stone in the form of an arc, using available materials, which could last for centuries. This example was adopted the world over, as we can see in Roman architecture. There have been lesser quality imitations in the region at the time.

There has been nothing like it in the pages of history books. A foreign minority, descending upon a national majority of a country, fortified by colonial political, military and financial support and a hostile ideology, emptying the country of its people, seizing all their land and property, obliterating their landscape, history and memory, claiming that this crime is an act of divine intervention, and persisting, unchecked by force of justice in committing this crime, according to the same plan for over 60 years with no end in sight, is unprecedented in the history of the world. This is the recent history of Palestine. The records of the United Nations, and before it, the League of Nations, contain a detailed chronicle this of long violent history.

It is impossible to examine the Palestinian land ownership in Israel outside the context of the general Palestine-Israel conflict. This question is not a domestic, municipal or local dispute, common in other countries. This is an integral component of the Zionist invasion of Palestine in 1948 which was preceded by massive Jewish immigration to Palestine under the British Mandate.

A popular poster map shows village details in occupied Palestine in 1948 and 1967.

The Jewish National Fund (JNF) is a multinational organization with offices in over a dozen countries. Funded primarily through tax-exempt donations from Jewish communities and other supporters worldwide, its stated mission is to acquire and develop land in Israel for the exclusive benefit of Jewish residents.