The Lessons of the Palestinian Model City
Rejecting the “theology of victimization.”
June 17, 2016
The Lessons of the Palestinian Model City
Rejecting the “theology of victimization.”
Some five miles from Ramallah lies the city of Rawabi, built from scratch by a Palestinian-American real-estate developer to encourage foreign investment and economic growth in the West Bank and give Palestinians an opportunity to live in a modern, aesthetically pleasing, and carefully planned city. According to some, Rawabi is as much about the “dream” of Palestinian statehood as it is about real estate. Elliott Abrams disagrees:
June 17, 2016
Elie Kedourie’s Radical Dissent from Orientalist Orthodoxies
An Iraqi Jew and leading scholar of the Middle East.
Iran Prepares for a New Civil War in Iraq
Extremists thrive on turmoil.
A Tale of Wealth, Corruption, and Small-Town Jewish Mores
A member of the Rothschild family finds himself in a small shtetl for the Sabbath.
Religion May Be Part of Human Nature, But Why?
Fear of retribution vs. craving transcendence.