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Itamar Ben-Gvir, June 2021. (Shai Kandler via Wikimedia)

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Everyone Loves Calling Israeli Politicians “Messianic.” Why?

The historical roots of Israelis’ favorite political epithet.

By Philologos
Two women in Jenin, Samaria. (Jana Cavojska/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

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There Never Will Be a Palestinian State. So What’s Next?

By Elliott Abrams

October 7 was not Palestine’s independence day, but the final nail in the two-state solution’s coffin. Is confederation with Jordan all that remains?

Penelope and her servants, engraving from "Usi e Costumi di Tutti i Popoli dell'Universo." (Photo by Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images)

Observation

Penelope in Jerusalem

By Ido Hevroni

Reading Homer in wartime.

Raqqa, Syria, August 2017 after the U.S-ISIS war.

Observation

The Use and Abuse of “Genocide” by Those Who Should Know Better

By Philologos

Many people are delighted to be told that Israel is doing to the Palestinians of Gaza exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe.

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