The China-Iran Deal Isn’t Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be—but It Still Matters
A Chinese gas station in the Middle East?
April 1, 2021
“The establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine will be a blessing to the whole world.”
One-hundred years ago last week, Herbert Samuel—the Anglo-Jewish politician who had just been appointed high commissioner for Palestine—T.E. Lawrence (a/k/a Lawrence of Arabia), and Winston Churchill arrived in the Holy Land by train from Egypt. Churchill, himself recently made the secretary of state for the colonies, remained in Palestine for eight days. Lee Pollock describes the visit:
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The most ideologically coherent coalition is the one least likely to come about.
The dangers of scapegoating.
A very temporary haven.
“The establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine will be a blessing to the whole world.”