"Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem" available on Net

[Comadreja]

"Encyclopedia of the Palestine Problem" by Issa Nakhleh
http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/

Press release:

Major reference work on Palestine

Now available on the internet: The most detailed presentation of the
Palestine problem. Originally published in 1991 the two volume
"Encyclopedia
of the Palestine Problem" is available under
http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com

Anyone still believing the myth of the "evil Palestinians" and the
"poor
suffering Israelis" will have to revise his position after reading the
book.
Murder, usurpation, terrorism, destruction of agricultural possessions,
elimination of villages, rape and torture .... -the "Encyclopedia of
the
Palestine Problem" shows in shocking detail the fate of a people whose
voice
is heard but whom not many seem to listen to.

In his forward John Quigley, Professor of International Law, writes:
"The
consequences of Mr. Nakhleh's analysis are serious. If the government
of
Israel has committed even a fraction of the international crimes he
describes, then virtually every high official in Israel from 1948 to
the
present is subject to prosecution as a war criminal."

Francis A. Bolye, Professor of International Law, states: "It must be
read
in order to comprehend the enormous sense of historical injustice that
has
been felt and lived by the Palestinian people for over the past for
decades.
These grave injustices must be rectified before there can ever be some
modicum of peace in the middle East for anyone."

Detailed references to the many different sources, from eye witness
accounts
to United Nations documentation and reports from the Public Record
Office
in London, show the enormous work of fact finding which has gone into
the
writing of the encyclopedia.

Palestinians do not have such a smooth public relations machine as the
Israeli government can afford. However, Palestinians can point to facts
-
facts which are easily forgotten in the daily dealings with the
Palestine
problem.

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The author: ISSA NAKHLEH was a Palestinian Christian, born in the
Shepherd's Field in Palestine. He was a graduate of the London
University
(LL.B. ) and a Barrister at Law of the on our able Society of Lincoln's
Inn,
London. He was a member of the Palestine Bar and a member of many Bar
associations in the Arab World.

He represented the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine in New York City
1947-1948. He was a Representative of The League of Arab States in
Latin
America, with an office in Buenos Aires, Argentina 1956-1957, with the
rank
of Minister Plenipotentiary.

For the last 40 years Issa Nakhleh was representing the Arab Higher
Committee for Palestine in New York City. He attended more than forty
sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and made more than
fifty
speeches in the Special Political Committee of the United Nations on
the
Problem of Palestine.

The internet editor: Tom Voltz met Issa Nakhleh fifteen years ago in
Switzerland. With permission of Mrs. Nakhleh he publishes the
encyclopedia.
the publication has not received any external funding, access is free
of
charge.

Sincerely
Tom Voltz
Apt. #41
07340 Alaro/Baleares
Spain


URGENT RAFAH APPEAL:
http://al-awda.org/urgentrafahappeal/

[drdon326]

1. This tells you where this is coming from......

CHAPTER 37: SO-CALLED ISRAEL IS NOT A STATE EITHER IN FACT OR IN LAW


"so-called israel" ??.

:puke:

[mike_c]

3. it's history, 'bro-- if you can't bear to read about Israel's crimes...

...then at least have the good grace to withhold your barfing emoticons. A more constructive approach might be to read it and either dispute the veracity of the information presented or argue that the Israeli crimes were somehow justified.

[drdon326]

4. I was hoping you'd say that.....

tell me....since i'm disputing the veracity....

Do you believe "SO-CALLED ISRAEL IS NOT A STATE EITHER IN FACT OR IN LAW"??

[mike_c]

5. I believe that neither you nor I have read the arguments...

...Mr. Nakhleh makes to justify that statement, since they are not yet linked in the online version. We'll just have to wait for volumn 2. In the meantime, do you have the stomach to read the evidence of Israeli war crimes described in Vol. 1? Or perhaps you didn't get past the table of contents?

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

6. An Interesting Feature Of The Table Of Contents, Sir

Is that the headings for "Zionist Crimes" commence with 1939. This suggests something of a white-wash regarding violence in the Mandatory period....

[The Magistrate]

7. Really Must Remember

To check the log-ins when wife has left the machine....

"No fool like an old fool!"

[bemildred]

8. In my experience it is better not to know Sir.

Avoid temptation and various other vices.

[mike_c]

9. perhaps, but remember that absence of evidence...

...in not evidence of absence.

[The Magistrate]

11. You Seem To Have Missed The Point Of The Comment, Sir

You will have to look a good deal more squarely and deeply at the history of the period than this tenditious and distorted work to comprehend it....

[mike_c]

12. indeed?

Forgive me for having missed your point.

on edit: your point.

[mike_c]

2. same as it ever was in occupied Palestine....

"Iqrit is an Arab village in Western Galilee next to the Lebanese border with an area of 15,650 dunums. It was occupied by the Haganah on October 3 1,1948. Six days later, on November 5, the villagers were ordered, for "security reasons" and on the pretext of safeguarding their lives, to leave their homes ....

...appeals to Haganah leaders went unheeded or were rejected. After more than two years of unabated applications, correspondence, delegations, meetings and negotiations without avail, the villagers realized that the Israelis had no intention of allowing them to return to their homes and lands. Thus they petitioned the High Court of Justice in High Court Case No. 64/51.

On July 31, 1951, the High Court ruled that "there is no legal obstacle to petitioners returning to their village." The villagers, believing that the authorities would honor the High Court's decision, applied to the Military Governor to implement it.... At the end of the month the government, incredibly, gave the people formal orders to leave their village, which they had left about three years before. These orders were purported to be in accordance with the provisions of the Emergency Regulations (Security Zones), 1949.

...Although the matter was under consideration before the highest court in the country, the Israeli army, following an order from the Military Governor or the Minister of Defense, blew up all the houses of this Maronite Christian Arab village on Christmas Day, 1951. The High Court was thus presented with a fait accompli.

On August 25,1953 (OfficialGazette No. 309 of September 3, 1953, p. 1446), the Minister of Finance issued a certificate under which the whole of Iqrit, with its area of 15,650 dunums, was requisitioned pursuant to Section 2 of the Land Acquisition (Validation of Acts and Compensation) Law, 1953."

link: http://www.palestine-encyclopedia.com/EPP/Chapter11_2of7.htm

[Classical_Liberal]

10. America was taken from it's original inhabitants too

To undo America would do more harm than good. The same goes for Israel. What is needed is a compromise. Two states, or bi-nationality. Perhaps two states leading bi nationality as Tikkun suggests.

[mike_c]

13. well, the American model has certainly not been a good...

...example to follow.