Why the Peace Process Always Fails; or, the Art of the Non-Deal
The myth about Palestinians’ missed opportunities.
May 24, 2017
The inverse of the Oedipus complex.
Drawing on interpretations offered by Moshe Halbertal and Stephen Holmes in their recent study of the politics of the book of Samuel, Peter Leithart analyzes the corrupting influence of power on Israel’s first king and his disintegration into an obsessive envy of the young David, whom at first he had loved like a son:
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Lessons from Israel and from Middle Eastern television.
Not in our house.
The inverse of the Oedipus complex.
A remnant of socialist authoritarianism.