Hamas’s Narrative about the War with Israel Has Shifted from One of Victory to One of Suffering
No longer the Battle of Badr, but righteous martyrdom.
July 10, 2024
Hamas’s Narrative about the War with Israel Has Shifted from One of Victory to One of Suffering
No longer the Battle of Badr, but righteous martyrdom.
In the immediate wake of October 7, Hamas and its supporters repeatedly compared their success attacking Israel to a purportedly miraculous victory described in the Quran, the Battle of Badr, in which Mohammad and his followers defeated a far larger force defending the city of Mecca. As Shaul Bartal writes:
July 10, 2024
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Theodor Herzl Knew More about Early Christian Zionism Than Anyone Realized
The Blackstone Memorial in Europe.
How John F. Kennedy Inspired the Lubavitcher Rebbe
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The British Library and the History of Dutch Jewish Medical Students
Eighteenth-century dissertations.