Israeli War of Independence
A fifteen-year-old who wouldn’t take “no” for an answer.
Was there a massacre at Deir Yassin?
Prague, unlike Berlin, joined Washington in recognizing Israel’s capital.
One new book debunks the nakba myth; another perpetuates it.
The usual answer is Truman—but it could just as easily be Stalin. In fact, thanks to Zionist diplomacy, it was both; and therein lies a lesson for the Jewish state today.
Shattering a myth of the 1948 war.
A war that could have been prevented.
Little has changed.
Despite the UN, not because of it.
Michael Kinsley, the founding editor of Slate, is incensed by what he has read in Ari Shavit’s My Promised Land about a 1948 massacre, allegedly. . .
In his much-vaunted book My Promised Land, the Israeli journalist Ari Shavit devotes a chapter to a “massacre” of Arabs that he claims took place. . .
Known for his fine translations from Hebrew, Walter Lever lived in Israel at the time of its birth and left a deeply thoughtful memoir of. . .
Israel is still fighting its war of independence. A secure peace will be possible only once the Jewish character of the state is widely accepted.