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Tag: Israel
MLK: The Six-Day War interview
Did Martin Luther King stand up for the Palestinians?
Oppenheimer on Israel
The father of the bomb saw the promise of Israel.
The Nazi case for Hamas
A false equivalence has Nazi precedents.
Israel from 25 to 75
What has Israel learned since 1973? Don't blindly trust leaders.
What “judicial reform” is really about
The crisis in Israel goes way beyond judges and courts.
Barbara Walters, impresario of peace
A celebrity journalist and the diplomacy of spectacle.
Israel: 74 years of independence
Israel's declaration of independence: this is the day to reread it.
Declaring Israel united it
Not the spirit of a person or a party, but of a people.
Israel’s default constitution
Israel's declaration of independence isn't a constitution. Or is it?
The right of the Jewish people
There are no individual rights without this collective one.
Did the UN create Israel?
How Israel's founders cherry-picked the UN partition resolution.
Will the real founders please stand up?
The year is 1949. Cast your vote for a founder of Israel!
Menachem Begin, a founder of Israel?
Sorry. The great Menachem Begin wasn't a founder of Israel.
When state met religion in Israel
Placing their trust in the Rock of Israel, they declared Israel's independence. Whose rock?
What about Menachem Begin?
Does Menachem Begin make the cut as a founder of Israel?
Which “we” declared Israel’s independence?
Who really declared the state of Israel? And who didn't want to call the state Israel?
Kissinger, Kerry, Kushner
Forget partisan politics. The Abraham Accords are an American achievement and asset.
Israel, the (independent) state
Israel didn't declare independence in 1948. It declared statehood. The difference?
Israel declares independence: new series
May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel's Declaration of Independence.
The MLK Day bundle
Martin Luther King, Israel and the Palestinians: time to cut through the fog.
Behind Israel’s most expensive house
How the billionaires replaced the novelists on Israel's most expensive street.
Israel’s vulnerable new friends
Israel seeks to translate its strength into recognition. The Gulf Arabs seek to translate their recognition into strength.
The ghost of annexation past
The West Bank has been annexed before. Jordan had lots of advantages that Israel doesn't, but it still ended in regrets.
1948: Why the name Israel?
How did Israel get its name? A process of elimination.
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