A New Alliance Is Emerging to Contain Turkey, and Israel Is a Key Part of It
But American support is necessary for it to succeed.
November 13, 2020
The travels of Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.
By the 17th century, the Land of Israel had been revived as a center of Jewish intellectual life, and was home to small if vibrant Jewish communities. But much of what we know about this era, writes Samuel Thrope, comes from the travelogue of the Sufi scholar and holy man Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, who set out from his home in Damascus for Jerusalem in 1690:
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At best, it is blind to anti-Semitism and at worst bleeds into it.
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The travels of Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi.