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April 24, 2018

What Ze’ev Jabotinsky Got Right about Israel’s Strategic Needs

The “Iron Wall” today.

In a 1923 essay, the Zionist thinker Ze’ev Jabotinsky—the ideological progenitor of today’s Likud—argued that only by building a powerful military force could a prospective Jewish state safeguard itself against destruction, and eventually come to live in peace with its neighbors. Zev Chafets argues that Israel, wittingly or unwittingly, has succeeded by following the prescriptions set forth by Jabotinsky in that essay, titled “The Iron Wall”:

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April 24, 2018

  1. What Ze’ev Jabotinsky Got Right about Israel’s Strategic Needs

    The “Iron Wall” today.

  2. The U.S. Needs a Plan for Leaving the Iranian Nuclear Deal

    What happens the day after?

  3. The Fatal Mistake of Granting Legitimacy to the PLO

    The rise and fall of the Palestinian Authority.

  4. A Talmudic Meditation on Government’s Responsibility to the Governed

    Both kings and sages are servants.

  5. Laying to Rest the Question of Who Wrote the Prayer for Israel’s Government

    Agnon or Herzog?