Looking at Palestine from Zion Ross Singer

The Letter quoted her comes from Rabbi Messas' three volume collection of his letters known at Otzar HaMichtavim אוצר המכתבים. The letter cited is in volume three, page 163 letter #1,769.

Here is a link to the facebook post which I based this episode upon.



The reading from O Jerusalem was collected from scattered passages in a number of places from the book.

This episode takes on the claim that Jews were tolerated and thrived under Islam and therefore there is no need for a Jewish state in the region.

For citations of the quotes you can see the facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100065086977184



The passages from Hillel Cohen and Rashid Khalidi and Abu Iyad can be found:



Abu Iyad: My Home My Land pg. 33-34

Khalidi: The Iron Cage pg. 60-62

Cohen: 1929 (Hebrew Version) pg. 152-155

I share my response to Pappe's claim that population transfer was a deeply embedded pillar of the Zionist program and ideology. He leaves out major figures and important works to reach his conclusions that I find libelous.

An exploration of the discussion of the practice of tearing (קריעה) upon seeing the cities of Judah in their destruction as a contra to the common anti-Zionist claim that Jewish communal identity was solely religious before the end of 19th century. In fact we can see longing for Jewish sovereignty in classic works of halachah (Jewish law) hundreds of years before the advent of modern Zionism.