Fact and Fantasy in the Holy Land

A selection of articles, reprinted by permission, by Middle East writer Samuel Katz. During British Mandate rule, he was a member of the high command of the Irgun Zvai Leumi under the leadership of Menachem Begin. Katz was elected a member of the first Knesset of Israel, and, after the Six Day War, he became one of the leaders of the Land of Israel movement. After the victory of the Likud party in the 1977 election, Samuel Katz joined the new government as adviser to Prime Minister Begin. He has since served as a columnist ofMaariv and the Jerusalem Post.
Early History

• Continuous Jewish Presence in the Holy Land
• Awakening in the Christian world in support of a Jewish Restoration 1830-1930
• Arab Claims to Palestine
• Joint Arab-Jewish agreement on Jewish Homeland, between Emir Feisal Husseini and Dr. Weizmann, January 3, 1918
• Jewish proposal for Jewish Homeland, presented to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919
• Feisal-Frankfurter Correspondence, further to Arab proposal for Jewish Homeland, March 3, 1919
• American Proposal for Jewish Homeland, January 21, 1919
• Preamble to the League of Nations Mandate, 1922

Later History

• British Plans against France, and against the Jews in 1915
• Britain, Haj Husseini and the Arab Riots of 1920
• British Efforts Against the Nascent Israeli State, in 1948
• The Origin of the Dispute: Israel attacked before there were Refugees & before any "Occupied Territories" in 1948
• Arab Refugees, and the "Right of Return"
• The War before the Six Day War in 1967
• Black September, The PLO's attempt to take over Jordan in 1970
• Modern Arab Propaganda has incorporated Soviet Propaganda originally used to suppress dissident Soviet Jews
• Modern Arab Propaganda has incorporated Nazi Propaganda
• The 1973 Yom Kippur War, a study in Soviet Era Politics
• Peace Agreement with Egypt & Begin's plan for Palestinian Autonomy in 1979
• Israel's Invasion of Lebanon in 1982, Operation Peace for the Galilee; the routing of the PLO; Its rift with Syria & Creation of PLFP; Islamic control of Lebanon; Emergence of Hamas and first Suicide Bombers
• The history of the PLO and the International Legitimization of Terrorism

Other

• The myth of "Palestinian" Nationalism and the reality of Arabic-Islamic Nationalism
• Bibliography and Source Documents related to Palestinian-Israeli conflict

This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst 
Brooklyn, New York