Three History Lessons

Uri Avnery "on the omission of centuries" — Abridged Histories of the Holy Land. "Jewish history," he says, "ignores not only all that happened in the country before the Israelite era, but also everything that happened during the 1747 years between the Bar Kokhba uprising in 135 A.D. and the start of the pre-Zionist settlement in 1882." "On the Arab side, things are no better," with an "historical picture starts in the Arab peninsula with the advent of the Prophet Mohammed, mentioning the era of Jahiliyah ('ignorance') before that, and comes to Palestine with the Muslim conquerors."

The "Principles of ’98" are "ideas that nationalists of left and right alike detest," says Thomas E. Woods, Jr., debunking the official narrative that "the only reason anyone might wish to vindicate the cause of states’ rights is for the purpose of defending slavery or upholding some lesser form of local oppression" — The States’ Rights Tradition Nobody Knows. Their co-author, the Sage of Monticello, once wrote, "When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated."

Laurence M. Vance reminds us that on August 14^th, 1945, "after the two atomic bombs had been dropped on Japan, and after Emperor Hirohito had agreed to surrender," "the largest bombing raid in history" was committed and "[y]et, many timelines of World War II do not even list this event as having occurred" — Bombings Worse than Nagasaki and Hiroshima.