Israel’s Tactical Successes in Syria Haven’t Achieved a Strategic Victory
A missed opportunity?
June 20, 2023
Midge Decter’s legacy.
In the 1970s, there were very few Jewish thinkers on the political right, and no more than a tiny handful of them were women. One was Midge Decter, who had already established her bona fides among the New York intellectuals as a journalist and editor when she, along with her husband, Norman Podhoretz, helped found the persuasion that became known as neoconservative. A year after her death, Matthew Continetti reflects on Decter’s legacy:
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“Pay for slay” persists.
The Egyptians “spit on us and called us monkeys and animals.” Israelis “gave us chocolate and juice and handcuffed us.”
Midge Decter’s legacy.
Now known as the “synagogue of the Assumption.”