Current Events From Academia Historic Palestine: What you need to know! November 9, 2020 Sherry Oz No Comments I recently critiqued an article that used the term “historic Palestine” nine times in 21 pages without offering a definition even once. It is taken for granted that the reader…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking (Second) Partition Plan Made Simple March 28, 2018 Sherry Oz No Comments Once upon a time, there was a huge piece of land that was taken under wing by arrogant European has-been empires when they successfully destroyed a rival empire. They divvied…
Current Events From Academia Does Israel Miss The British Mandate? We Might Just. October 3, 2017 Sherry Oz No Comments Seems we Israelis, or some of us, may have been nostalgic for the British Mandate period for — well, for ever-since-the-Brits-got-on-their-boats-and-shipped-back-to-the-UK. Professor Eitan Bar-Yosef of Ben Gurion University says we…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking British Mandate of Israel – OOPS! – Palestine December 18, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments I’m killing myself trying to think how we Israelis can get out of this stupid debacle we are in whereby Arabs are now calling themselves Palestinians in order to get…
Current Events Politically and Diplomatically Speaking “Palestinian” Refugee Status Was Easy to Obtain October 11, 2015 Sherry Oz No Comments Do you know how easy it was to get Palestinian refugee status from UNRWA in 1948? All it took was living in the British Mandate for Palestine for two years.…