Palestine

Contents

Introduction

 

1. The Early Documents

ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, The Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917)

EDWIN MONTAGU, The Anti-Semitism of the Present Government (Against the Balfour Declaration) (23 August 1917)

EMIR FEISAL & CHAIM WEIZMANN, Agreement between Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann (3 January 1919)

STATEMENT OF THE ZIONIST ORGANIZATION REGARDING PALESTINE (Presented at the Peace conference - Paris) (1919)

EMIR FEISAL & FELIX FRANKFURTER, Correspondence (3-5 March 1919)

GENERAL SYRIAN CONGRESS, Memorandum Presented to the King-Crane Commission (2 July 1919)

INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON MANDATES IN TURKEY, Report of the American Section (King-Crane Commission) (28 August 1919)

 

2. Jews - Judaism

ERNEST RENAN, Judaism as a Race and as a Religion (1883)

BERNARD LAZARE, The Jews (1894)

MARTIN BUBER, Nationalism and Judaism (1921)

CAMILLO BERNERI, The character of the Jews (1935)

ELIAS CANETTI, The Jews (1962)

ROBERT ARDREY, From Jews to Israelis (1966)

GIORGIO AGAMBEN, The End of Judaism (2024)

 

3. Zion - Zionism

THE BASEL PROGRAM, First Zionist Congress (1897)

THEODOR HERZL, Mauschel (1897)

KARL KRAUS, A Crown for Zion (1898)

INTERNATIONALIST, National Atavism (1906)

AVRAHAM (YAIR) STERN, National Revival Principles (1940)

ARTHUR KOESTLER, The Zionists as Suprematist Exploiters (1949)

MURRAY ROTHBARD, War Guilt in the Middle East (1967)

ROGER GARAUDY, Definition of Zionism (1996)

THE JERUSALEM PROGRAM, The Platform of the World Zionist Organization (2024)

 

4. Dissenting Voices

LEV TOLSTOY, On Zionism (1907)

SIGMUND FREUD, On Zionism (1930)

MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI, On Jews and Zionists (1931-1947)

ALBERT EINSTEIN, On Jews in Palestine (1932-1949)

LORD MOYNE, Parliamentary debate on Zionists in Palestine (1942)

NETUREI KARTA, Zionism is not Judaism (1975)

YEUDA ELKANA, The Need to Forget (1988)

ISAAC ASIMOV On Jewish intolerance (1994)

 

5. The State of Israel

THE BILTMORE CONFERENCE (1942)

DAVID BEN-GURION, Rebirth and Destiny of Israel (1931-1952)

MASSACRES AND MASS EXPULSIONS IN PALESTINE Plan C and Plan D (1946-1948)

THE DECLARATION OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL (1948)

HANNAH ARENDT ET ALII, Letter to the Editors of the New York Times (1948)

MAXIM GHILAN, Behind the Scenes in Israel (1964)

BERTRAND RUSSELL, On expansionist Israel (1970)

ANONYMOUS, I Am Israel (2008)

URI AVNERY, Eyeless in Gaza (2018)

 

6. Arabs - Palestinians

CAMILLO BERNERI, Bloodstained Palestine (1929)

EDMOND RABBATH, The Arabs (1937)

T. R. FEIWEL, The Arab does not exist (1938)

KING ABDULLAH OF JORDAN, The Truth about Palestine (1947)

GHASSAN KANAFANI, Letter from Gaza (1956)

CECIL HOURANI, Towards a Middle East Dialogue (1967)

PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION, Palestinian National Charter (1968)

HAMAS, General principles and objectives on Palestine (2017)

 

7. United Nations Resolutions

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 194 (1948)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 2443 (1968)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 2546 (1969)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 3236 (1974)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 3379 (1975)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 3415 (1975)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 32/5 (1977)

UNITED NATIONS RESOLUTION 34/89 (1979)

 

8. Peace Proposals

RABBI YOSEF CHAIM SONNENFELD, Message of Peace and Truth (1929)

JUDAH L. MAGNES, Toward Peace in Palestine (1943)

COUNT FOLKE BERNADOTTE, Suggestions on Palestine (1948)

HAL DRAPER, To Break the Vicious Spiral in Palestine (1956)

NAHUM GOLDMANN, A plan for peace in Palestine (1978)

YOSSI WOLFSON, Palestine and the so-called "peace process" (1995)

THE HAIFA DECLARATION (2007)

 

9. One-State Solution

SIMON DUBNOW, The Doctrine of Jewish Nationalism (1897-1906)

HASHOMER HATZAIR WORKERS’ PARTY, The Case for a Bi-National Palestine (1946)

MARTIN BUBER, The Bi-National Approach to Zionism (1947)

MOHAMMAD RASHEED, Towards a Democratic State in Palestine (1969-1970)

SAIF AL-ISLAM GADDAFI, Isratine (The Israelis-Palestinians Federation) (2000)

THE OLGA DOCUMENT (2004)

VARIOUS AUTHORS, The One State Declaration (2007)

 

10. No-State Solution

EMMA GOLDMAN, Beyond National Territorialism in Palestine (1938)

VARIOUS AUTHORS, The Palestine Crisis (1946-1948)

ALEX COMFORT, Whither Israel? (1948)

ALFREDO BONANNO, No to the Palestinian State (1988)

JAMES HEROD, Palestine: The No-State Solution (2009)

YUVAL BEN-AMI, Introducing the No-State Solution (2010)

CHAD ASHTON BROWN, Unlocking Peace in Palestine (2023)

MOHAMMED A. BAMYEH, The No-State Solution: Histories and Realities (2025)

 

Selected Writings and Web Sites