Speaking in English, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces Israel’s airstrikes on Iran, targeting nuclear enrichment, nuclear weaponization, nuclear scientists, the Natanz nuclear facility and ballistic missile infrastructure. Netanyahu says the attack is for the world, not just for Israel.
Many in the Arab world and amongst Palestinian leaders believe that, for the sake of evenhandedness and justice, the U.S. government, a longtime supporter of Israel’s security and existence, should have openly endorsed and urged others to vote for the proposition of Palestinian state recognition at the United Nations. Criticism of the U.S. failing to do so has been harsh, but it is also without perspective or historical context. What is forgotten is the persistent, even aggressive, perhaps unprecedented role that Washington has played in pushing for Palestinian rights, self-determination and, most recently, for Palestinian statehood.
Both the intifada that started in December 1987 and the Arab revolt of 1936 to 1939 unexpectedly jolted the political status quo. But unlike its precursor, the intifada unified a physically dispersed and ideologically diverse Palestinian community.
In early 1988, for the second time within eight years, the Reagan Administration reacted to events in the Middle East by proposing that the stalled Arab-Israel negotiating process be reactivated, an effort known as the Shultz Initiative.
This analysis was undertaken and written at the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem by Jewish observers of the Arab riots and rebellion that took place between April 1936 and early 1939.
Ze’ev Jabotinsky argues that peaceful coexistence between Arabs and Jews in Palestine is impossible until Zionists demonstrate through strength that they are an irreversible presence in the Land of Israel.
June 2025 From the early 19th century, Zionists and then Israelis negotiated with Arabs in Palestine and neighboring areas. Zionist officials sought compromises as early as the 1930s and into the 1940s, as when the…
June 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of leaders and leadership throughout Israeli history. Books Abrams, Dennis. Ehud Olmert: Modern World Leaders. New York: Chelsea House Publishers,…
Before Israel’s establishment, Zionists in Palestine had contacts with Lebanese and Syrian officials, seeking information about anti-Zionist attitudes and understanding of these Arab states’ military capabilities against Israel’s establishment and survival. Since 1949 and the…
Jews always have bound themselves together by committing to Torah values, taking care of one another, adapting to new settings, coping with persistently precarious living environments, and finding leaders who looked past immediate obstacles to…
A major objective of Zionism and Israel remains the “normalization” of the Jewish people in a secure territory of their own. As a worldwide minority through the ages, Jews have lobbied and negotiated with stronger…
1991 Dr. Ken Stein Kenneth W. Stein, “One Hundred Years of Social Change: The Making of the Palestinian Refugee Problem,” in Laurence Silberstein (ed.), New Perspectives on Israeli History: The Early Years of the State,…
April 2023 Dr. Ken Stein, © CIE
2009.6.14 Netanyahu, Benjamin. Bar-Ilan University. June 14, 2009. Speech.
1995.11.1 Source: Yehuda Avner. The Prime Ministers: An Intimate Narrative of Israeli Leadership. London: Toby, 2010. 707. Print.
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1993.9.13 “Oslo Accords.” Israel’s Foreign Relations: Selected Documents. 1992-1994. Editor Meron Medzini. Jerusalem: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1995. 310-328. Print.
1967.6.3 Israel. Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “Speech by Israeli Ambassador Gideon Rafael to the UN Security Council.” Israel’s Foreign Relations: Selected documents, 1947-1974. Ed. Medzini, Meron, and Chaim Yahil. Jerusalem: Ahva Press, 1976. 763-771. Print.
29 Novembre 1947 Official Records of the General Assembly, Second Session Supplement No. 11,Volumes l-lV. Nel mese di settembre dopo essere stato in Palestina, l’UNSCOP pubblicò la sua relazione. Nel rapporto di maggioranza veniva suggerita…
17 Settembre 1947 Nel corso degli anni Trenta i dirigenti sionisti tentarono più volte di avviare un dialogo con gli arabi residenti in Palestina nella prospettiva di ricomporre almeno in parte le differenze fra le…
Marzo 1939 Al Husayni, Hajj Amin. “The Decision by Mufti Hajj Amin al-Husayni to reject the 1939 White Paper.” Izzat Tannous, The Palestinians: Eyewitness History of Palestine. New York: Igt Co., 1988. Pages 309-310. All’inizio…
26 gennaio 2021 Professor Kenneth Stein *Cronologia selezionata e breve Fino al 1800, Gli ebrei mantengono un legame storico con la terra di Israele; gli scritti biblici e il senso di appartenenza al popolo ebraico…
May 2025 CIE has compiled the following list of books and articles to guide understanding of the modern Middle East. For a supplement to this bibliography, click on CIE’s Annotated Bibliography of Basic Books on…
