The British assumed control of Palestine as a result of World War I; their administration of the territory was later recognized by League of Nations mandate. Peters persistently interprets the Mandate as having the goal of developing a Jewish state in Palestine:...
Paul Blair
Paul Blair is former editor of The Intellectual Activist.
From Time Immemorial – Palestine on the Eve of Zionist Settlement: An Empty Land? (Part 2 of 6)
In 1901, Israel Zangwill wrote, "Palestine is a country without a people; the Jews are a people without a country."1 Joan Peters takes up this view, claiming a "profusion of evidence of an uninhabited Palestine [p.170]," and citing many travelers through Palestine to...
From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine (Part 1 of 6)
In 1984 Joan Peters' book From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine appeared to much critical acclaim. The book won the National Jewish Book Award; the New Republic said it would "change the mind of our generation." The jacket...
Elian Gonzalez Has a Right Not to Live in Slavery
Parental rights end where totalitarianism begins.
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