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September 20, 2016

Leo Strauss’s Forgotten Letter Defending Israel

The best response to delegitimizers is engagement with Zionism’s founding texts.

In January 1957, National Review, then less than a year old, published a letter by Leo Strauss denouncing what he saw as the magazine’s anti-Israel stance and arguing that conservatives ought to support the Jewish state. Steven B. Smith extracts some important lessons for dealing with present-day assaults on Israel’s legitimacy:

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September 20, 2016

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