The IDF Deputy Chief of Staff’s Abuse of Holocaust Remembrance
Israel doesn’t need a second Yom Kippur.
May 6, 2016
In Defense of Sykes-Picot
Don’t blame the treaty for the Middle East’s problems.
On May 16, 1916, the diplomats Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot—representing Great Britain and France, respectively—made an agreement to divide up the Middle East in the event that their countries defeated the Ottoman empire in World War I. The treaty, which created the modern borders of the Middle East, has often been blamed for the region’s problems. Michael Rubin begs to differ:
May 6, 2016
In Defense of Sykes-Picot
Don’t blame the treaty for the Middle East’s problems.
French Jewry’s Enthusiastic But Discreet Role in Resisting the Nazis
And the French Resistance’s own ambivalence.
Did Joshua Really Make the Sun Stand Still?
Or was he just trying to undermine his opponents’ morale?
The Medieval Origins of the Kaddish
Saving the lowliest sinners from hellfire.