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
“Before a king reigned in Israel.”
In the Bible, the land of Edom—populated, according to Genesis, by the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau—occurs frequently as a rival of the Israelites. Although the text specifies that the Edomite kingdom predates the reign of Saul and David, archaeologists have generally thought it was inhabited by tribal nomads up until the 8th century BCE, about 200 years later. A new discovery at an archaeological site in Jordan changes that, as Aaron Reich writes:
The U.S. stands to benefit from the Jewish state’s technology.
The country, once a safe haven for terrorist organizations, is now fully entwined with one.
And other rules for renewing the civic discourse.
In the hope of reducing Israel to what he sees as its proper dimensions, a historian has cherrypicked facts.
“Before a king reigned in Israel.”
In the Bible, the land of Edom—populated, according to Genesis, by the descendants of Jacob’s twin brother Esau—occurs frequently as a rival of the Israelites. Although the text specifies that the Edomite kingdom predates the reign of Saul and David, archaeologists have generally thought it was inhabited by tribal nomads up until the 8th century BCE, about 200 years later. A new discovery at an archaeological site in Jordan changes that, as Aaron Reich writes:
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