5. Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson Possession Is Nine-Tenths of the Law In line with the principle that what is out of sight is out of mind, the Palestinians rarely entered U.S. policy considerations throughout the 1950s and 1960s. After their dispersal in 1948, the name Palestine disappeared from the world’s political register, primarily because for Israel and even […]
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4. Harry Truman 5*INFO
4. Harry Truman History Belongs to the Victors History, writes Israeli historian and Oxford University professor Avi Shlaim, is in a sense “the propaganda of the victors,” and because Israel so resoundingly won the 1948 war, which gave it independence and determined for decades thereafter the fate of the Arabs of Palestine, Israel was able […]
3. Franklin Roosevelt 5*INFO
3. Franklin Roosevelt Locked In Franklin Roosevelt made no major policy decisions with regard to Palestine, but because he perpetuated what had already become a firmly set frame of reference at a critical time in the history of Palestine, his tenure was pivotal. Elected in 1932, he was in office from the era of increased […]
1. Palestinians in the Nineteenth-Century Mind 5*INFO
1. Palestinians in the Nineteenth-Century Mind Humorist Mark Twain’s bitter cynicism and cleverness as a wordsmith combined to make him a popular commentator in mid-nineteenth century United States. His jaundiced observations of Palestine and Palestinians, publicized in his 1869 account of travels through Europe and the Holy Land, The Innocents Abroad, have made him a […]
2. Woodrow Wilson 5*INFO
2. Woodrow Wilson “Rising Above” Self-Determination A frame of mind in which Arabs essentially played no part, in which they were politically invisible, patronized, disdained, or ignored altogether—this is the mind-set with which the policymakers who made the first official decisions on Palestine for the United States after World War I grew up. President Woodrow […]
Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism 5*INFO
May 2009 Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism Thomas D. Ice Liberty University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/pretrib_arch Recommended Citation Ice, Thomas D., “Lovers of Zion: A History of Christian Zionism” (2009). Article Archives. 29. https://digitalcommons.liberty.edu/pretrib_arch/29 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Pre-Trib […]