Famous Novelists “Confront the Occupation” in the West Bank—and Celebrate Themselves
Innocents abroad.
June 27, 2017
Why Partition Is the Best Possible Outcome for Syria
The only alternative to bloodshed.
In 1936, five leaders of Syria’s Alawite religious minority—including Suleiman al-Assad, the grandfather of the country’s current ruler—sent a petition to French politicians asking that the territory in which they and their co-religionists lived not be included in a future Syrian state. Such an outcome, they feared, would lead to the endless persecution of Alawites at the hands of the Sunni Muslim majority. Instead, Syria was unified and the Alawite minority came to constitute the political elite. The consequences, writes Robert Nicholson, were disastrous:
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Why Partition Is the Best Possible Outcome for Syria
The only alternative to bloodshed.
What the Collapse of the Western Wall Compromise Means for Israel, and for Zionism
Jewish peoplehood vs. the ultra-Orthodox.
Some Advice for Those Upset by the Failure of the Western Wall Compromise
The ultra-Orthodox are willing to fight. Few of the non-Orthodox are.
Should Leonard Cohen Be Considered a Great Jewish Poet?
A musician who answered the call of Jewish cultural renewal.