Narendra Modi’s Reelection Is Good News for Israel
His pro-Israel turn has provoked neither Arab states nor Indian Muslims.
June 5, 2019
The Great British Historian and Devoted Communist Who Once Suggested Nuking Israel
The case of Eric Hobsbawm.
Born in Alexandria in 1917 to Jewish parents, Eric Hobsbawm—who later became one of Britain’s most highly regarded historians—spent his childhood in Austria and Germany before coming to England in 1933 in the wake of Hitler’s rise to power. Hobsbawm had joined a socialist youth group in 1931 and remained committed to Karl Marx’s teachings right up until his death in 2012. Reviewing a massive new biography of Hobsbawm by Richard Evans, David Pryce-Jones writes:
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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.