How Israel Can Turn Itself from a Liability to an Asset in the Global Competition with China
The U.S. stands to benefit from the Jewish state’s technology.
September 23, 2019
Did Early Zionist Thinkers Seek Something Other Than a Sovereign Jewish Nation-State? It’s Complicated
In the hope of reducing Israel to what he sees as its proper dimensions, a historian has cherrypicked facts.
In Beyond the Nation-State, the Israeli historian Dmitri Shumsky argues that a number of Zionist thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw as their goal something other than the creation of a Jewish nation-state in the Land of Israel. The American rabbi Judah Magnes and the German theologian Martin Buber—both of whom favored a binational Jewish-Arab state—are the most famous examples. But Shumsky also calls attention to figures in the Zionist mainstream, including Theodor Herzl, his Russian-Jewish precursor Leon Pinsker, Vladimir Jabotinsky, and even David Ben-Gurion. Allan Arkush credits Shumsky for his “eye-opening” approach to some of these figures, but ultimately finds the book a failure because of what its author “chooses to overlook”:
September 23, 2019
While the U.S. Supports Lebanon, Lebanon Supports Hizballah
The country, once a safe haven for terrorist organizations, is now fully entwined with one.
Religion, in One Way or Another, Is Part of America’s Social Contract
And other rules for renewing the civic discourse.
Did Early Zionist Thinkers Seek Something Other Than a Sovereign Jewish Nation-State? It’s Complicated
In the hope of reducing Israel to what he sees as its proper dimensions, a historian has cherrypicked facts.
New Findings Support the Biblical Account of the Edomite Kingdom
“Before a king reigned in Israel.”