User:AladdinSE

'''Welcome to my User Page. I am a history buff. Right now I'm concentrating my efforts on under-documented or totally undocumented important personages and events in Levantine history, as well as general historical contributions to European and world figures and events.'''

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 * "If we cannot find ways of peace and understanding, if the only way of establishing the Jewish National Home is upon the bayonets of some Empire, our whole enterprise is not worthwhile, and it is better that the Eternal People that has outlived many a mighty empire should possess its soul in patience...  It is one of the great civilizing tasks before the Jewish people to enter the promised land, not in the Joshua way, but bringing peace and culture, hard work and sacrifice and love, and a determination to do nothing that cannot be justified before the conscience of the world." -- Judah Magnes, Chancellor, Hebrew University - Jerusalem, 1929.


 * "Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither, and will lose both." - Benjamin Franklin.


 * "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy." - James Madison.


 * "Against stupidity the very gods themselves contend in vain." -Friedrich Schiller.


 * "The best form of government is the separation and equilibrium of the executive, legislative, and judiciary; every people as an indefeasible right to as much freedom as can coexist with order, and each must be taxed in proportion to his income." -- Christoph Martin Wieland.


 * "Peace, Propaganda and the Promised Land: Media & the Israel-Palestine Conflict." One of the best documentaries ever made on the subject.

A selection of articles I've created or contributed substantially to

 * Sophronius, seventh century Eastern Patriarch of Jerusalem. (Original Creation).
 * Aristobulus IV, first century BCE Judean prince of the Hasmonean dynasty. (Original Creation).
 * John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
 * Judah Leon Magnes, pacifist Jewish rabbi and peace activist.
 * Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan, late president of the United Arab Emirates.
 * Lebanon's Cedar Revolution.
 * Lebanese President Alfred Naqqache. (Original Creation).
 * Lebanese Prime Minister Rashid Karami.
 * Lebanese Prime Minister Omar Karami.
 * Lebanese Maronite leader Cardinal Nasrallah Sfeir.
 * Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt.
 * Lebanese Shiite leader Hassan Nasrallah.
 * President Hashim al-Atassi of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Bahij al-Khatib of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Khalid al-Azm of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Jamil al-Ulshi of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Shukri al-Kuwatli of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Fawzi Selu of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Maamun al-Kuzbari of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Nazim al-Kudsi of Syria.
 * President Luai al-Atassi of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Nureddin al-Atassi of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * President Ahmad al-Khatib of Syria. (Original Creation).
 * Syrian nationalist Jamal al-Atassi. (Original Creation).
 * Franco-Syrian Treaty of Independence (1936). (Original Creation).
 * UN Security Council resolutions 452, 465 and 471 (Original Creations).
 * History of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
 * Israeli settlement.
 * Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Original Creation).
 * The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
 * The Babri Mosque.
 * The United Arab Emirates.
 * James Miller (filmmaker)
 * The first caliph of Islam, Abu Bakr.
 * The second caliph of Islam, Umar ibn al-Khattab.
 * The fourth caliph of Islam, Ali ibn Abi Talib.