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Read an excellent letter to President Obama about Palestine

This action letter was sent to me by the Washington Report of Middle East Affairs and relates to the question of Palestinian statehood.ACTION ALERT...

Palestinian statehood: a matter of war or peace?

Frustrated by years of fruitless negotiations, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will be making an appeal for state recognition this week as the...

Israel plans to erect a tent at UN headquarters in New York

The Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, which is headed by Yuli Edelstein, has decided to erect a 'tent' in front of the United Nations...

San Francisco and the filling of Yerba Buena Cove

At the time of statehood San Francisco had about twenty-five thousand people. Growth, mostly due to the gold rush, had been phenomenal. The tents...

San Francisco officially celebrates statehood

Even as Governor Burnett and Jared Crandell raced south to San Jose with the news of California’s admission into the union, preparations were...

Stagecoaches race to deliver news of statehood

As it happened, Peter H. Burnett, then Governor of California, was in San Francisco when the SS Oregon arrived with the news that California had...

California admitted to the Union

October 18, 1850. The Pacific Mail Steamship Oregon burst through the golden gate with bunting flying and firing it’s cannon. It ran along...

Israelis in Tel Aviv say 'yes we ken' to Obama

This Saturday, a march organized by various peace groups and political parties of Israel including Kadima, Hadash, Labor and Meretz delivered 25...

California forms a government

From the end of the War with Mexico in 1846 until entry into the union in 1850, California differed from every other territory of the United States...