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Palestine is Jordan?!? (opens the original)
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For many years, “Jordan is Palestine” has been a key slogan for the Israeli right. According to this view, there was no need to create a Palestinian state west of the Jordan because most of the Hashemite Kingdom’s population were of Palestinian descent. But what about the idea that the West Bank should be Jordan? Between 1948 and 1967, of course, it was. But now Avigdor Liberman is trying to resurrect the idea that Jordan should control parts of the area. In an interview on 23 September with the
September Recommendations (opens the original)
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Greetings all - as promised, because there was no recommendations email last month it’s a bumper edition this time. As ever - paid subscribers can ask for gift copies of any paywalled articles. ArticlesFor Beit Avi Chai I wrote about the Jewish high holidays and when Moses fought the angel of death.From Ha’aretz: Nir Hasson on how Jerusalem has become a <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2026-07-29/ty-artic
From the Arava to the West Bank (opens the original)
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Deep in the Arava, a group of young people are building a new community named Ir Ovot. Both religious and secular, the founding families see their actions as essential to rebuilding Israel following the war, and plan to move permanently in the winter. This is Jewish settlement of the land, an act that, in our era, goes back to the earliest days of modern Zionism and continues to arouse controversy today. Except, in the case of Ir Ovot, it doesn’t. There will b
The Ottoman Balfour Declaration (opens the original)
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“I declare once again, as I already did to the Jewish delegation, my sympathies for the establishment of a religious and national Jewish center in Palestine by well-organized immigration and settlement.” This sounds like a repeat of the Balfour Declaration, but it was actually a statement given by Talaat Pasha, one of the leaders of the Young Turks (and architect of the Armenian Genocide), to German Jewish businessman Leopold Perlmutter on August 12, 1918, announcing that the Ottomans were lifti
The Forgotten Embargo (opens the original)
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The coverage of Ed Miliband’s announcement of sanctions on Israeli settlements seems to have mostly ignored the fact that Margaret Thatcher herself, believed by many to have been the most pro-Israel prime minister of the twentieth century, imposed a 12-year arms embargo on Israel in response to the invasion of Lebanon and the Sabra and Shatila massacre that followed it, in S
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