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- Let’s not pretend Washington ever really tried to stop Israeli settlements
- Book Review: The Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine – By Bernard Regan – Verso, 2017
- Britain in Palestine Timeline
- Legacy of Empire – Book Review
- Scottish Parliament endorses Balfour Project Call to Action Sept 3rd 2019
- Israel’s election, Palestine, and Britain’s best response: Equal Rights
- 115 British Parliamentarians demand British Prime Minister act robustly to any Israeli annexation of Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Tragedy in Gaza: Britain’s legacy Scotland’s role
- Impressions of Palestine, 1 April 1946: Pessimist Perspectives
- Should Britain recognise a sovereign Palestine now? Event report
- What is the UK’s role in Israel – Palestine today?
- Is There a Plausible Alternative to The Two-State Solution? By Tony Klug
- Book Review – ‘Britain’s Pacification of Palestine: The British Army, the Colonial State, and the Arab Revolt, 1936–9’ by Matthew Hughes
- Britain’s historic responsibility to the people of Palestine, Gaza and Israel
- Britain needs to recognise Palestine as an independent state
- The U.S. Recognition of Israel, 14 May 1948. Part III: ‘A Near-Run Thing’
- The U.S. Recognition of Israel, 14 May 1948. Part II: Truman’s Belated Support
- The U.S. Recognition of Israel, 14 May 1948. Part I: Roosevelt, Truman, Marshall: A Sequence of Contingencies
- Gaza, one year on
- Towards an independent Palestinian state: a Scottish call to action
- ‘The news from Gaza: dispelling myths and telling the truth’
- Conferences in Glasgow and Edinburgh
- Book Review: Persecution to relieve persecution
- Palestine 1948: Britain Surrenders to Terror
- Palestine and Britain: forgotten legacy of World War I that devastated the Middle East
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Category Archives: Healing the Wounds of History
“Perfidious Albion” The British Legacy in Palestine, by Ilan Pappe
Professor Ilan Pappé’s paper at the Balfour Project conference in October 2013, was entitled “Perfidious Albion” The British Legacy in Palestine. Many participants thought it was very inspiring. He revealed that British involvement in the Middle East and Palestine specifically … Continue reading
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Tagged 19th Century, Christian Zionism, Crusades, Empress Helena, Middle East, millenarianism, Palestine, restorationism, Shaftesbury, Sykes
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“Are we trapped by our own narratives?” by Tony Klug
Tony Klug, speaking at the Balfour Project conference in October 2013 spoke stirringly to the question “Are we trapped by our own narratives?” He began by demonstrating that everyone becomes a player in this seemingly intractable conflict, where what passes … Continue reading
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Tagged Balfour Declaration, Christian Zionism, Israel, Palestine
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