Narendra Modi’s Reelection Is Good News for Israel
His pro-Israel turn has provoked neither Arab states nor Indian Muslims.
June 5, 2019
Israel and Egypt Made Peace in 1979 because Their Leaders Wanted to
Not because of American pressure.
In the conventional telling of the origins of the 1979 Camp David accords, President Jimmy Carter and his foreign-policy team dragged a reluctant Anwar Sadat and an even more reluctant Menachem Begin to the negotiating table and coaxed them into coming to an agreement. This story primarily emerges, write Gerald Steinberg and Ziv Rubinovitz, from the memoirs of several American officials. But recently declassified Israeli documents paint a very different picture of events, showing among other things that Begin supported peace with Egypt as far back as 1967:
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Israel and Egypt Made Peace in 1979 because Their Leaders Wanted to
Not because of American pressure.
The Great British Historian and Devoted Communist Who Once Suggested Nuking Israel
The case of Eric Hobsbawm.
What Africa Can Learn from Israel
Zionists weren’t held back by a victim mentality.
“Peaceful Pluralism” in the Ancient Middle East?
A new exhibit paints an ambiguous picture.