Talk:Musa Alami

message: There is a quite lot about him in the book :
*David Gilmour: Dispossessed. The Ordeal of the Palestinians. Sphere books, Great Britain, 1983, (first published in 1980)
-Gilmour inreviewed him in 1979, interesting stuff about his farm in Jerico. I will try to add it later. Regards, Huldra 12:56, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

message: I guess it was in relation to the Sinai War. I'd like to know more about this, but Laqueur only mentions this in passing. ←Humus sapiens ну? 10:23, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Humus; does Laqueur give any ref.? I don´t quite get it, though, the Suez Crisis was in 1956. I think you should probably give the ref. you have (ie, which page in Laqueur). I´m going to add some of the stuff from Gilmour. Regards, Huldra 10:40, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1958 riots 

message: I have just gotten hold of the above book (They didn´t have it in any library in my country, but it is easy (and not expensive) to get it via abebooks.com)  ..It more-or less confirm the 1958 riots...though it was a rather more complicated question than just riots against the English..hopefully I will have time to read/add more about it later. Just now I want to note the paragraph about :
"When Ben-Gurion suggested that the Zionists could provide significant help developing the region, Alami replied that he would prefer waiting one hundred years and leaving the land backward, as long as the Palestinians could do the job themselves.[2]"
Now, in the Furlonge -book it says quite clearly that this is what Ben-Gurion writes, not what Alami himself states. Furlonge also writes that although Ben-Gurions recollections are mostly right, it nontheless "contain a number of errors of fact." (p.231) So again, where does  Laqueur source this? If it is only B-G, then I think we should say so. Regards, Huldra 12:58, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Furlonge, Geoffrey W., Palestine is My Country: The Story of Musa Alami  (1969)

message: Why has this contribution of mine
*After he discovered water Norman Vincent Peale in his book POWER OF THE PLUS FACTOR describes the story of Musa Alami digging for water in the desert with pick and shovel.(p.39 and 40) 
been deleted?
:Austerlitz -- 88.72.10.138 07:41, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why 

message: *
* Mussa Alami Crossings into Jordan
* "The oasis in Free Zone is actually a place where a Palestinian man, Mussa Alami, founded a farm orphanage for Palestinian refugee children after 1948. It's a place I remember reading about when I was 16 or 17. During its history, two attempts were made to burn it down, once by Palestinians, once by Israelis. I used the true story behind this farm to enrich the narrative of the film."
*
Let's see what to do with this within the article. also, there must be some more information on the digging and finding water story. Maybe it is mentioned in Sir Geoffrey Furlonge's book'
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.213.180 (talk) 10:20, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: An Oaktree

message: The ADS was formed in 1945, not 1952, though some technical change occurred in 1952 (see refs above, that I have not yet explored).  I have a pretty good source up to about 1950: Cecil A. Hourani, Experimental Village in the Jordan Valley, MEJ 5:4 (1951) 497–501.  According to a book review, the book The Heritage of the Desert by Harry Ellis (1956) has about 6 pages on it.  Some political background is in Walid Khalidi, On Albert Hourani, the Arab Office, and the Anglo-American Committee of 1946,  JPS 35:1 (2005) 60–79.  Probably it is time to collect more sources and make an article on that organization.  I'm missing good information past the mid 1950s. Zerotalk 00:34, 30 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arab Development Society