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August 11, 2020

Hamas’s Leader Makes Clear That No Amount of Money Can Buy Peace

Proving Jabotinsky right.

While Theodor Herzl thought that by bringing Western technology and economic development to an impoverished corner of the Ottoman empire, a Jewish state could easily win over the Palestinian Arab population, his admirer Vladimir Jabotinsky was much more skeptical. Jabotinsky, writing nearly a century ago, understood that many Arabs would be unwilling to sacrifice what they saw as their own national pride for promises of prosperity. In a recent interview with a Qatari television program, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the Hamas politburo, made this point brutally clear, as the translators of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) explain:

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August 11, 2020

  1. Now Is the Time for the Gulf States to Make Peace with Israel

    For security against Iran, and for their relationship with the U.S.

  2. Hamas’s Leader Makes Clear That No Amount of Money Can Buy Peace

    Proving Jabotinsky right.

  3. Understanding Hizballah’s Global Empire

    An interactive map and timeline.

  4. Netflix’s Heretics and Their Descent into the Postmodern Abyss

    Unorthodox and The Awakening of Motti Wolkenbruch tell the same simplistic tale.

  5. Archaeologists Use Remnants of the Destruction of Jerusalem to Understand the History of the Earth’s Magnetic Field

    One of the remaining mysteries of physics.