#5 - Fear & Loathing in the New Jerusalem - Things Fall Apart...

“The French author Jean-Charles Dominique de La Coutelle wrote about the piles of bodies after this massacre, which became monuments to the cultural interaction between Europe and Palestine's Arabs.”

“Tom Segev writes about it in his book, One Palestine Complete. He says, quote, This event was the Arab Tell High, David Ben-Gurion said, and it portrayed al-Qassam as a fanatic warrior willing to face martyrdom.”

“Historian Martin Gilbert writes about the 1939 white paper, stating that majority rule would be instituted after it, giving the Arab majority legislative powers.”

“This book is one of the better studies on the Jewish experience in Ottoman Palestine, emphasizing that the regime does not discriminate against Jews.”

“John B. Judas in his book Truman and American Zionism writes about the Arab Higher Committee and its manifesto calling for a halt to Jewish immigration.”

“John Henning Speaks' so-called Hemitic hypothesis was adopted by the Belgians when they divided Rwandan society, influencing the 1994 genocide.”

“The statement from the command book of the Jewish State implies that Palestine was not to be converted into a Jewish state against the will of the Arab population.”

“Yuri Slezkin, he's a Russian-Jewish professor of Russian history at UC Berkeley. He's got a great book called The Jewish Century.”

“The Hebrew Bible begins with Adam and Eve being exiled from the Garden of Eden and tells the story of Abraham making his way to the land that would eventually become Israel.”

“The 1939 White Paper stated that the government considered the terms of the Balfour Declaration as a way to make the Arab world a better place for the Jewish people.”

“A great Jewish novelist and short story writer named Joseph Roth captures how strange the new nationalist world was in one of his short stories.”

“The second book of the Bible, where God remembers his people and charges Moses to lead them out of Egypt to a promised land.”