Proposals for a New American Approach to the Middle East
The U.S. cannot disengage.
January 24, 2017
The Egyptian Spy Who Might Have Saved Israel
And might have been a double agent.
In 1970, Ashraf Marwan—a chemistry student at a British university who happened to be Gamal Abdel Nasser’s son-in-law—telephoned the Israeli embassy in London and offered himself as an intelligence asset. Marwan, who soon became an important adviser to Nasser, continued spying for Israel until 1998. In The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel, Uri Bar-Joseph, an Israeli intelligence operative turned professor, tells Marwan’s story and goes to significant lengths to show—contrary to the claims of Eli Zeira, who served as the head of Israeli military intelligence during the Yom Kippur War—that he was not a double agent. Amy Newman Smith explains:
January 24, 2017
How the Holocaust Came to Be about Everything but the Jews
And why Ben Rhodes was appointed to the Holocaust Memorial Council.
The Egyptian Spy Who Might Have Saved Israel
And might have been a double agent.
Interreligious Dialogue and Its Moral Limits
“We look forward to hearing your paper on why the gods must be fed the blood of sacrificial victims.”
Ancient Samaria, a Land of Wealth and Idolatry
Why the northern kingdom provoked the prophets’ ire.