The legal and historical case for Israel, in one place: hundreds of essays, maps, and full books, free to read, download, and share.
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The legal foundation, 1920 to 1948
87181, 242, 338, and the record
653,000 years of history
67Judea, Samaria and Gaza in law
1241948, UNRWA, and return
16A century of refused compromise
41Treaties, borders, and rights
104The campaign against the state
731967 and its aftermath
28Nationhood and its claims
22Essays and analysis on the law, the history, and the arguments, searchable and free to read.
A comparison of European Union standards applied to Turkey’s EU candidacy versus those applied to Palestinian statehood aspirations, revealing a …
Read the essay →Despite 1,300 years of Muslim Arab rule, Jerusalem was never the capital of an Arab entity, nor was it ever mentioned in …
The history of the Arab-Israeli conflict reveals 24 major junctures when compromise was offered since the 1920s, dating …
“When it is asked what is meant by the development of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, it may be answered that it …
The Palestinian claim to ancient and indigenous peoplehood fails to stand up to historic scrutiny. Most Palestinian …
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The legal foundation of Jewish rights under international law, from San Remo to the League of Nations Mandate.
His reply to the 2004 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the security fence.
Eli E. Hertz served seven years in the Israel Defense Forces and studied at the Technion, Israel's Institute of Technology, before coming to the United States in 1974. He worked for the Government of Israel in New York, earned his degrees at Long Island University, and built a career as an entrepreneur. Through all of it, his deepest commitment remained the State of Israel: he served on the executive committee of AIPAC and chaired the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise, and in 1995 the United States House of Representatives honored him for strengthening ties between America and Israel.
He founded Myths and Facts to answer distortions about Israel with the documented record. Drawing on more than 25,000 documents from British and international archives, he wrote and distributed some 22,000 in-depth rebuttals on the law and history of the conflict. His book Mandate for Palestine was distributed by the Israeli government to foreign journalists, and his Reply answered the International Court of Justice's 2004 opinion on Israel's security barrier.
“These are not things that I imagined. They gave us legal rights.”
He built this work alongside his family, and it continues in that spirit: gathered here, free to read and share, and still growing.
