How America Can Regain Credibility by Putting Its Military to Use
Washington must instill fear in the hearts of its enemies if it is to leave the Middle East without damaging its international standing.
December 27, 2021
How Muslim Refugees from Tsarist Russia Became Loyal Israeli Citizens
The story of the Circassians of the Galilee.
Circassians—a people from the northwestern Caucasus who speak a language related to Chechen and Georgian—first came to the Middle East as mamluk soldiers in the Middle Ages. But during the bloody conquest of their homeland by Russia in the 19th century, Circassians fled en masse to the Ottoman empire, and some settled in the Land of Israel, where their descendants remain to this day. Shir Aharon Bram describes the history of their two main communities in the Jewish state, Kfar Kama and Rehaniya.
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An Arab Knesset Member’s Bold Statements about Israel’s Jewish Identity Deserve Praise
Has the real Mansour Abbas stepped forward?
The Bombing in the Democratic Republic of Congo Is a Sign of Islamic State’s Growing Presence in Central Africa
The Allied Democratic Forces.
When the World’s Strongest Man Was a Jew
Zishe Breitbart, the “second Samson.”
How Muslim Refugees from Tsarist Russia Became Loyal Israeli Citizens
The story of the Circassians of the Galilee.