In the wake of Haifa's occupation on April 23 1948 by the Zionists, under the nose of the British Mandate forces commended by General Stockwell, a man still historically discredited for this failure, thousands converged to Acre, a nearby city, which was still Arab under the "protection" of the British forces.
Acre was to be the next Zionist target. The Zionists besieged the city from the land side and started showering the population with a hail of mortar bombs day and night. Famous for its historical walls, Acre could withstand the siege for a long time. The city’s water supply comes from a nearby village, Kabri, about 10 km to the north, through an aqueduct. The Zionists injected typhoid into the aqueduct at some intermediate point, which passes through Zionist settlements.

The internment of thousands of Palestinian civilians in Israeli-run prisoner of war camps is a relatively little known episode in the 1948 war. This article begins to piece together the story from the dual perspective of the former civilian internees and of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Aside from the day-to-day treatment of the internees, ICRC reports focused on the legal and humanitarian implications of civilian internment and on Israel’s resort to forced labor to support its war effort.

The vast majority of Palestine’s population, including that in the highlands and the Shephelah apart from Jerusalem and outside the province of Jehud, continued in the land and began to prosper in the course of the Persian period. While the biblical books of Chronicles, Genesis, Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel present us with allegorical and utopian pictures of an ideal, repentant remnant of the people, returning to the land and reconciling all of Israel, the extensive archaeological excavations of Jerusalem and the area immediately surrounding it does not provide us with evidence that any significant return occurred historically during the Persian Period. The population of Jerusalem remained unchanged: limited to a few hundred. The population of the province of Jehud as a whole continued to be insignificant throughout the Persian and early Hellenistic periods.

This paper demonstrates the treachery of the Jewish National Fund, in particular the UK branch that funded the planting
of Britannia Park (or British Park) over the ruins of seven Palestinian villages. Salman Abu-Sitta presents the JNF’s
treachery from three perspectives – stealing the land, burying villages and falsifying history.

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.

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.

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.