Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, who served as the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine, is generally regarded as the intellectual progenitor of religious Zionism. Born. . .

According to radical Israeli scholars, nomadic desert clans have a strong legal claim to ownership of large tracts in the Negev. The facts point elsewhere.

In their actual policies, Arab states have shown far less concern for the well-being of the Palestinians than for their own self-serving interests.  

In the words of a leading British Zionist: “The idea of Judaism is inseparable from the idea of the Jewish people, and the idea of. . .