Mandate Palestine
1936, annus horribilis.
A joyous tune for a baleful year.
“I am on my own lady messiah.”
Israel’s future prime minister watched Churchill up close in war-time London, and then sounded Churchillian notes when called upon to rally his own nation.
The land to the east of the Mediterranean has gone by many names, all of them designed to make a political point.
What a new biographical novel misses.
Part of the history of World War II in North Africa.
The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem.
And their anti-Semitic roots.
Revealed in newly declassified records.
“The establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine will be a blessing to the whole world.”
Eugene Kontorovich thinks that the 1920 San Remo conference sits at the foundation of Israel’s legitimacy. Martin Kramer disagrees. Who’s right?
And the forgotten battle that cost Moshe Dayan his eye.