These photos were taken between 1898 and 1914 when Palestine was under Ottoman rule.

A nostalgic look at the past.

In 1898, American Colony Photo Department, (later the Matson Photo Service), took these pictures of Bedouins in Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine and Jerusalem.

The British government archives has refused to declassify a file about the activities of the Nazi-sympathizing Mufti of Jerusalem in 1941 in Iraq, in the time preceding British takeover of the country.

Israel is now facing the consequences of its mistreatment of the land and its resources.

The Zionist movement gained its aim of forming a Jewish state with the founding of Israel in 1948--but that founding was based on war and murder.