The Sykes-Picot Agreement Obstructed, Rather Than Abetted, Jewish Aspirations for Statehood
Until it was revoked.
May 23, 2016
Famous Novelists Throw an Anti-Israel Temper Tantrum, in Book Form
Courtesy of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, married authors of best-selling novels, have bravely decided to alert the world to the supposed horrors of Israel’s “occupation” of the West Bank and east Jerusalem. To accomplish this, they are organizing a collection of essays by over twenty distinguished literary figures, all of whom have visited or will visit these territories and, Lawrence Haas writes, are presumably as naïve, self-righteous, and ignorant of Middle East realities as Chabon and Waldman:
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Rectifying America’s Middle East Policy in the Wake of the Iran Deal
Push back.
Famous Novelists Throw an Anti-Israel Temper Tantrum, in Book Form
Courtesy of Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman.
Should the Ban on Benedict Spinoza Be Lifted?
Subsuming Judaism to liberalism.
A Christian Bible Scholar’s Tendentious Attack on Zionism
A dangerous book from a distinguished theologian.