Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land
A selection of articles, reprinted by permission, by Middle East writer Samuel Katz. During British Mandate rule, he was a member of the high command of the Irgun Zvai Leumi under the leadership of Menachem Begin. Katz was elected a member of the first Knesset of Israel, and, after the Six Day War, he became one of the leaders of the Land of Israel movement. After the victory of the Likud party in the 1977 election, Samuel Katz joined the new government as adviser to Prime Minister Begin. He has since served as a columnist ofMaariv and the Jerusalem Post.Early History
- Continuous Jewish Presence in the Holy Land
- Awakening in the Christian world in support of a Jewish Restoration 1830-1930
- Arab Claims to Palestine
- Joint Arab-Jewish agreement on Jewish Homeland, between Emir Feisal Husseini and Dr. Weizmann, January 3, 1918
- Jewish proposal for Jewish Homeland, presented to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
- Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence, further to Arab proposal for Jewish Homeland, March 3, 1919
- American Proposal for Jewish Homeland, January 21, 1919
- Preamble to the League of Nations Mandate, 1922
- British Plans against France, and against the Jews in 1915
- Britain, Haj Husseini and the Arab Riots of 1920
- British Efforts Against the Nascent Israeli State, in 1948
- The Origin of the Dispute: Israel attacked before there were Refugees & before any "Occupied Territories" in 1948
- Arab Refugees, and the "Right of Return"
- The War before the Six Day War in 1967
- Black September, The PLO's attempt to take over Jordan in 1970
- Modern Arab Propaganda has incorporated Soviet Propaganda originally used to suppress dissident Soviet Jews
- Modern Arab Propaganda has incorporated Nazi Propaganda
- The 1973 Yom Kippur War, a study in Soviet Era Politics
- Peace Agreement with Egypt & Begin's plan for Palestinian Autonomy in 1979
- Israel's Invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Operation Peace for the Galilee; the routing of the PLO; Its rift with Syria & Creation of PLFP; Islamic control of Lebanon; Emergence of Hamas and first Suicide Bombers
- The history of the PLO and the International Legitimization of Terrorism
- The myth of "Palestinian" Nationalism and the reality of Arabic-Islamic Nationalism
- Bibliography and Source Documents related to Palestinian-Israeli conflict
This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst
Brooklyn, New York
E-mail to a friendSource: "Battleground: Fact & Fantasy in Palestine" by Samuel Katz,
It is the Arab Conflict, not Israel. The Arabs want what Israel has; which they rebuilt with blood sweat and tears; well they cannot have it.
ReplyDeleteIsrael is on its own historical territory with continued habitation of Jerusalem and The Land of Israel for over 3,000 years, that in the past 140 years with hard work and toil have turned the land of Israel from a desert, desolate and abused land into green pastures with modern industry and infrastructure and a first class medical research, outstanding technology and innovation that is helping all the people and nations in the world. The April 1920 San Remo Conference incorporated the Balfour Declaration as international law and allocated Palestine without boundary restrictions to the Jewish people and at the same time; The Arabs have received over 13 million sq. km. since WWI of which 70% is vacant with a wealth of oil reserves plus Jordan which is Jewish territory. The Arab countries expelled over a million Jewish families (confiscated all their assets including homes and over 120,000 sq. km. of Jewish owned land for over 2,600 years) who were resettled in Israel and now they want to throw them out of their own country. There is no such entity as Arab Palestinians, they are Arabs from the neighboring Arab countries that most of them crossed the border illegally into Israel and settled there on Jewish land in the past 120 years. The Arab-Palestinian Organization is a terrorist organization just like Hamas and Hezbollah with its leader Mahmmoud Abbas the convicted terrorist murderer.
The Arabs and the world at large must face reality and stop deluding themselves. It is Jewish territory for over 3,200 years and Israel will never surrender it to anyone.
Only with this realization will there be a chance for peace.
U.N. resolutions are non-binding with no legal standing.
It is time for Israel to transfer the Arabs who reside west of the Jordan River to Jordan and to the million homes and over 120,000 sq km. of land the Arabs countries confiscated from the million Jewish families they expelled who now live in Israel. That is the only way that Israel will have peace and safety.
YJ Draiman