Qassem Suleimani’s Career of Trying to Kill Jews
Why the head of Hamas spoke at his funeral.
January 16, 2020
An Egyptian’s Forgotten Plan to Sell the Western Wall to the Jews
Where honor is involved, £20,000 isn’t enough. But £100,000?
While Jews have worshipped at the Western Wall nearly continuously since the Second Temple’s destruction, Ottoman policy forbade any sort of formal congregational prayer. The British Mandatory authority tried to preserve the existing status quo, but during the 1920s the site saw periodic outbreaks of anti-Jewish violence. In August 1929, just after the bloody pogrom in Hebron, three proposals emerged for placing the Wall and the area in front of it under Jewish control. Two of these proposals came from Jews, but not the third, which until now has been forgotten. Steven E. Zipperstein writes:
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Will Arab Anti-Zionism Return?
Hatred of Israel may have propelled Tunisia’s new president to electoral victory.
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An Egyptian’s Forgotten Plan to Sell the Western Wall to the Jews
Where honor is involved, £20,000 isn’t enough. But £100,000?
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