War Has Changed, but Territory Still Matters
A painful loss for Israel’s enemies.
March 8, 2024
War Has Changed, but Territory Still Matters
A painful loss for Israel’s enemies.
In observing maps of the progress of the war in Gaza, one can see something very old-fashioned: the IDF is moving from north to south, gradually expanding the territory under its control. Meir Finkel argues that in doing so Israel is rediscovering basic strategic truths that it had thought were obsolete:
March 8, 2024
Meet the New Anti-Zionism, Same as the Old Anti-Zionism
What attracted Harvard students to a 1960s anti-Semitic cartoon?
Don’t Ignore the Religious Roots of Hamas’s Brutality
The atrocities weren’t a byproduct of war but an end in themselves.
A Piece of 11th-Century Technology Displays Muslim-Jewish Scientific Collaboration
The astrolabe of Verona.
When Conservative Rabbis Argued about Ordaining Women
A dispute between the old world and the new?