Military Action Might Be the Only Way to Stop Iran from Getting Nuclear Weapons
It’s time to make that option more feasible.
December 8, 2017
The Ottoman Balfour Declaration
It wasn’t only the Allies who acknowledged Jewish claims to the land of Israel.
As Martin Kramer has explained in Mosaic, the Balfour Declaration was not a unilateral move by Britain but was supported by an international consensus of the Western Allies then fighting in World War I. What’s more, writes Wolfgang Schwanitz, the Jewish claim to the land of Israel also came to be supported by the Ottoman empire, which was then fighting with Germany against the Allies. The Ottoman grand vizier, Talaat Pasha, issued an official statement lifting all restrictions on Jewish immigration to Ottoman-controlled Palestine and expressing his “sympathies for the establishment of a religious and national Jewish center” there. Although the statement was a dead letter, delivered eight months after the British seizure of Palestine and less than three months before Istanbul surrendered, Schwanitz argues that it should nonetheless be taken seriously:
December 8, 2017
How Daniel Patrick Moynihan Put Jerusalem on the American Agenda
Missing the senator from New York.
As Genesis Makes Clear, Fear of God Is the Best Check on Sexual Impropriety
#ThouToo.
The Ottoman Balfour Declaration
It wasn’t only the Allies who acknowledged Jewish claims to the land of Israel.
The Two Paths of Traditional Jewish Learning in America
A rabbi comes to YIVO.