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Israeli Palestinians: The Unwanted Who StayedWriting in German, Theodor Herzl, the father of Zionism, titled his classic work on the future state for Jews "Der Judenstaat." In English it's translated "The Jewish State." Not accurate. Had Herzl meant a Jewish state, he would have used the adjectival form "Judische Staat," implying that the new state was to be culturally Jewish, much as the U.S. is often called a Christian country. That is, the new state would observe Jewish holy days and holidays and adopt Hebrew as its official language. But Herzl purposely used the possessive form "Der Judenstaat" to affirm that the new state was to literally belong to Jews worldwide, and only to Jews. It would be equivalent to declaring that the U.S. belonged exclusively to Christian-Americans. So, what does all this linguistic hairsplitting have to do with life today in Israel? According to Jonathan Cook, a British journalist living in Israel, and the author of our most recent issue of The Link, everything. Click here for the Current Issue. Our Featured Issue from the Archive: As Jonathan Cook points out in the current Link, one in 10 Palestinian citizens live in what are called “unrecognized villages”—that is, unrecognized by their own state. Many are Bedouin living in the desert region of the south, the Negev. In Israel’s early years, the Bedouin tribes—isolated by the military government from the rest of the country—were ordered by the army to move from their ancestral grounds.With amazing chutzpah, Israel now claims that these forcibly relocated Bedouin have no title deeds or historic connection to the lands they were transferred to and are therefore “squatters.” It has been seeking to evict them from their homes ever since. The plight of these particular Israelis was described in depth in an earlier Link by Ron Kelley, which we have chosen as the “Featured Issue.” Click here for the Featured Issue. The Archive: Graphic images of all past issues of The Link are accessible on this website and can be downloaded in PDF format. The text of virtually every issue is available for separate downloads, which accommodates web users who lack high speed connections. The text is in a form that is printer-friendly and can be quickly e-mailed. Click here to browse through The Archive. The Link Catalog: A Guide to AMEU’s Internet Archive has a brief description of each Link. After looking through the catalog, researchers can return to the archive and search it by year, author or subject. Give a gift subscription to The Link. A gift subscription for one year (five issues) is $20.00. Mail your check with a list of gift recipients to: AMEU, 475 Riverside Drive, Room 245, New York, NY 10115-0245. Each gift recipient also will receive (1) our anthology, "Burning Issues,” a compilation of AMEU’s best Links from the past 40 years, and (2) a copy of the recently revised “The Colonization of Palestine” by Jamil Fayez, a listing of the 452 cities, towns and villages that were destroyed with the establishment of the state of Israel. Please help sustain our work. Your donations make publishing The Link possible and enable us to answer requests for copies from churches, study groups and conferences. Donations to AMEU can be made in one of two ways:
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