The Sykes-Picot Agreement Obstructed, Rather Than Abetted, Jewish Aspirations for Statehood
Until it was revoked.
May 23, 2016
Courtesy of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, married authors of best-selling novels, have bravely decided to alert the world to the supposed horrors of Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. To accomplish this, they are organizing a collection of essays by over twenty distinguished literary figures, all of whom have visited or will visit these territories and, Lawrence Haas writes, are presumably as naïve, self-righteous, and ignorant of Middle East realities as Chabon and Waldman:
Until it was revoked.
Push back.
Courtesy of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
Subsuming Judaism to liberalism.
A dangerous book from a distinguished theologian.
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, married authors of best-selling novels, have bravely decided to alert the world to the supposed horrors of Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. To accomplish this, they are organizing a collection of essays by over twenty distinguished literary figures, all of whom have visited or will visit these territories and, Lawrence Haas writes, are presumably as naïve, self-righteous, and ignorant of Middle East realities as Chabon and Waldman:
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