China Expands into the Levant—and Improves Its Ties to Israel’s Adversaries
Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey will be stops on the new silk road.
April 21, 2021
Revealed in newly declassified records.
Zionism, critics of the Jewish state often claim, is nothing but a European colonial enterprise. But in reality the Jews of the Land of Israel were, in the 28 years before the state’s creation, subjects of British colonial rule—which was not always benign. According to recently declassified documents from the Mandatory period, British police killed or wounded a number Jews without provocation. Itamar Eichner writes:
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Login or SubscribeLebanon, Syria, and Turkey will be stops on the new silk road.
The Arab parties and the arrangements committee.
Despite what Mahmoud Abbas told J Street.
The Lailashi codex.
Revealed in newly declassified records.