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July 2, 2021

The Israeli Flag Flies in the City That Gave the World Herzl and Hitler

The Austrian capital redeemed.

In the midst of May’s Israel-Hamas conflict, the Austria chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, had the flag of the Jewish state hoisted over the seat of the government in central Vienna’s Ballhausplatz. Meir Soloveichik explores the “unique and profound poetry” of this gesture:

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July 2, 2021

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