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MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL, THE (INDEPENDENT) STATE Although Israel has what is commonly called a declaration of independence, its actual formal name is something else: the Proclamation of the State of Israel. 1948: WHY THE NAME ISRAEL? July 14, 2020. By Martin Kramer. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared statehood in the old Tel Aviv Museum, now Independence Hall, on Rothschild Boulevard. The climax was this sentence: “We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”. This was the applause line, the ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years.PALESTINIANS
The Trump plan: history doesn’t run in reverse. On March 2, 2020July 4, 2020 By Martin Kramer. On February 5, Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum interviewed me on the Trump plan for Israel and the Palestinians. I’ve written about it elsewhere; in the interview, I offer some further reflections. GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. MUFTIS OF MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Muftis of Morningside Heights. On October 13, 2008. June 29, 2020. By Martin Kramer. Columbia University will be hosting an “Edward Said Conference” on November 7-8, with the title “ 1948-1978: Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims .”. The participants, who include all of Columbia’s Palestinian mandarins, will focus onthe
NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him. MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL, THE (INDEPENDENT) STATE Although Israel has what is commonly called a declaration of independence, its actual formal name is something else: the Proclamation of the State of Israel. 1948: WHY THE NAME ISRAEL? July 14, 2020. By Martin Kramer. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared statehood in the old Tel Aviv Museum, now Independence Hall, on Rothschild Boulevard. The climax was this sentence: “We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”. This was the applause line, the ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years.PALESTINIANS
The Trump plan: history doesn’t run in reverse. On March 2, 2020July 4, 2020 By Martin Kramer. On February 5, Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum interviewed me on the Trump plan for Israel and the Palestinians. I’ve written about it elsewhere; in the interview, I offer some further reflections. GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. MUFTIS OF MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Muftis of Morningside Heights. On October 13, 2008. June 29, 2020. By Martin Kramer. Columbia University will be hosting an “Edward Said Conference” on November 7-8, with the title “ 1948-1978: Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims .”. The participants, who include all of Columbia’s Palestinian mandarins, will focus onthe
NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL, THE (INDEPENDENT) STATE Although Israel has what is commonly called a declaration of independence, its actual formal name is something else: the Proclamation of the State of Israel. ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE Israel would have preferred Mengele. On June 30, 2020. July 9, 2020. By Martin Kramer. I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaustcinema.
SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO ISRAEL According to the May 31 ordinance, every soldier and officer would “take an oath of allegiance to the State of Israel, its laws, and its lawful authorities.”. Ben-Gurion had pushed for the swearing-in of the most senior commanders right through June, and finally convened them at the general staff headquarters in Ramat Gan on June 27. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ISRAEL, THEN AND NOW Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now. Not a year goes by without an attempt by someone to associate the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Palestinian cause. It’s particularly striking because while he lived, no one had much doubt about where he stood. Here, for example, is the late Edward Said, foremost Palestinianthinker of
THE BALFOUR DECLARATION AND THE “JEWISH PROBLEM” The Balfour Declaration and the “Jewish problem”. On October 31, 2019. October 28, 2020. By Martin Kramer. The anniversary of the Balfour Declaration falls on November 2 (it’s 102 years), and I mark it with an essay on a neglected question. The record shows that British issuance of the declaration originated in the necessities ofwar.
ELIE KEDOURIE
Martin Kramer, "Elie Kedourie," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-38. Kedourie, Elie 1926-1992 British historian of the modern Middle East For forty years Elie Kedourie was the most formidable practitioner of a dissident historiography of the Middle East, one who rejected the post-colonial dichotomy between Western guilt PRISONER OF HATE: JEAN GENET AND PALESTINE Prisoner of Hate: Jean Genet and Palestine. This is Martin Kramer’s review of Edmund White, Genet: A Biography, published in Commentary, July 1994, pp. 46-49. On the morning of 19 September 1982, the French writer Jean Genet visited the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila near Beirut. Two nights earlier, Israel had permitted its Lebanese ISLAMISM AND FASCISM: DARE TO COMPARE Islamism and Fascism: Dare to Compare. On September 20, 2006 By Martin Kramer. On Tuesday of last week, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) entered the fray over the Bush Administration’s description of the enemy as “Islamic fascism.” (Bush first used the phrase on August 7, and other top officials have followed suit.) Feingold: MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL, THE (INDEPENDENT) STATE Although Israel has what is commonly called a declaration of independence, its actual formal name is something else: the Proclamation of the State of Israel. 1948: WHY THE NAME ISRAEL? July 14, 2020. By Martin Kramer. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared statehood in the old Tel Aviv Museum, now Independence Hall, on Rothschild Boulevard. The climax was this sentence: “We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”. This was the applause line, the ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years.PALESTINIANS
The Trump plan: history doesn’t run in reverse. On March 2, 2020July 4, 2020 By Martin Kramer. On February 5, Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum interviewed me on the Trump plan for Israel and the Palestinians. I’ve written about it elsewhere; in the interview, I offer some further reflections. GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. MUFTIS OF MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Muftis of Morningside Heights. On October 13, 2008. June 29, 2020. By Martin Kramer. Columbia University will be hosting an “Edward Said Conference” on November 7-8, with the title “ 1948-1978: Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims .”. The participants, who include all of Columbia’s Palestinian mandarins, will focus onthe
NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him. MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL, THE (INDEPENDENT) STATE Although Israel has what is commonly called a declaration of independence, its actual formal name is something else: the Proclamation of the State of Israel. 1948: WHY THE NAME ISRAEL? July 14, 2020. By Martin Kramer. On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared statehood in the old Tel Aviv Museum, now Independence Hall, on Rothschild Boulevard. The climax was this sentence: “We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”. This was the applause line, the ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years.PALESTINIANS
The Trump plan: history doesn’t run in reverse. On March 2, 2020July 4, 2020 By Martin Kramer. On February 5, Gregg Roman of the Middle East Forum interviewed me on the Trump plan for Israel and the Palestinians. I’ve written about it elsewhere; in the interview, I offer some further reflections. GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. MUFTIS OF MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Muftis of Morningside Heights. On October 13, 2008. June 29, 2020. By Martin Kramer. Columbia University will be hosting an “Edward Said Conference” on November 7-8, with the title “ 1948-1978: Orientalism from the Standpoint of its Victims .”. The participants, who include all of Columbia’s Palestinian mandarins, will focus onthe
NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL, THE (INDEPENDENT) STATE Although Israel has what is commonly called a declaration of independence, its actual formal name is something else: the Proclamation of the State of Israel. ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE Israel would have preferred Mengele. On June 30, 2020. July 9, 2020. By Martin Kramer. I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaustcinema.
SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO ISRAEL According to the May 31 ordinance, every soldier and officer would “take an oath of allegiance to the State of Israel, its laws, and its lawful authorities.”. Ben-Gurion had pushed for the swearing-in of the most senior commanders right through June, and finally convened them at the general staff headquarters in Ramat Gan on June 27. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ISRAEL, THEN AND NOW Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now. Not a year goes by without an attempt by someone to associate the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Palestinian cause. It’s particularly striking because while he lived, no one had much doubt about where he stood. Here, for example, is the late Edward Said, foremost Palestinianthinker of
THE BALFOUR DECLARATION AND THE “JEWISH PROBLEM” The Balfour Declaration and the “Jewish problem”. On October 31, 2019. October 28, 2020. By Martin Kramer. The anniversary of the Balfour Declaration falls on November 2 (it’s 102 years), and I mark it with an essay on a neglected question. The record shows that British issuance of the declaration originated in the necessities ofwar.
ELIE KEDOURIE
Martin Kramer, "Elie Kedourie," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-38. Kedourie, Elie 1926-1992 British historian of the modern Middle East For forty years Elie Kedourie was the most formidable practitioner of a dissident historiography of the Middle East, one who rejected the post-colonial dichotomy between Western guilt PRISONER OF HATE: JEAN GENET AND PALESTINE Prisoner of Hate: Jean Genet and Palestine. This is Martin Kramer’s review of Edmund White, Genet: A Biography, published in Commentary, July 1994, pp. 46-49. On the morning of 19 September 1982, the French writer Jean Genet visited the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila near Beirut. Two nights earlier, Israel had permitted its Lebanese ISLAMISM AND FASCISM: DARE TO COMPARE Islamism and Fascism: Dare to Compare. On September 20, 2006 By Martin Kramer. On Tuesday of last week, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) entered the fray over the Bush Administration’s description of the enemy as “Islamic fascism.” (Bush first used the phrase on August 7, and other top officials have followed suit.) Feingold: MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. KISSINGER, KERRY, KUSHNER During the recent Gaza skirmish (so it will go down in history, I predict), some journalists and opinion writers rushed to declare the demise of the Abraham Accords. THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: WHOSE IDEA? On March 1, 2021. March 1, 2021. By Martin Kramer. In Samuel Huntington’s famous 1993 article, “The Clash of Civilizations?” (yes, it had a question mark), he wrote that “on both sides the interaction between Islam and the West is seen as a clash of civilizations.”. Then he brought this supporting quotation fromBernard Lewis:
ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. REPUDIATED PRESIDENTS AND ISRAEL Repudiated presidents and Israel. On January 20, 2021. January 29, 2021. By Martin Kramer. The end of the Trump Administration has prompted much stock-taking. Many have argued that Donald Trump was good for Israel. Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, brokering the AbrahamAccords
SAN REMO REDUX
San Remo redux. On February 15, 2021. February 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. Readers will remember that back in December, I wrote an essay arguing that the hype around the centenary of the San Remo conference of 1920 was overblown and unjustified. Some people were claiming that San Remo, an event unknown to many Israelis and supporters of Israel NASSER’S DEATH, 50 YEARS ON Nasser’s death, 50 years on. Fifty years ago last night, on September 28, 1970, at 6:15 pm Cairo time, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser died. Cause: heart attack. A minute before midnight, Egyptian vice-president Anwar Sadat announced the death to the nation. “Abdul Nasser is more than words,” he said. “He is more immortalthan all
GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ISRAEL, THEN AND NOW Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now. Not a year goes by without an attempt by someone to associate the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Palestinian cause. It’s particularly striking because while he lived, no one had much doubt about where he stood. Here, for example, is the late Edward Said, foremost Palestinianthinker of
NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him. MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. KISSINGER, KERRY, KUSHNER During the recent Gaza skirmish (so it will go down in history, I predict), some journalists and opinion writers rushed to declare the demise of the Abraham Accords. THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: WHOSE IDEA? On March 1, 2021. March 1, 2021. By Martin Kramer. In Samuel Huntington’s famous 1993 article, “The Clash of Civilizations?” (yes, it had a question mark), he wrote that “on both sides the interaction between Islam and the West is seen as a clash of civilizations.”. Then he brought this supporting quotation fromBernard Lewis:
ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. REPUDIATED PRESIDENTS AND ISRAEL Repudiated presidents and Israel. On January 20, 2021. January 29, 2021. By Martin Kramer. The end of the Trump Administration has prompted much stock-taking. Many have argued that Donald Trump was good for Israel. Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, brokering the AbrahamAccords
SAN REMO REDUX
San Remo redux. On February 15, 2021. February 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. Readers will remember that back in December, I wrote an essay arguing that the hype around the centenary of the San Remo conference of 1920 was overblown and unjustified. Some people were claiming that San Remo, an event unknown to many Israelis and supporters of Israel NASSER’S DEATH, 50 YEARS ON Nasser’s death, 50 years on. Fifty years ago last night, on September 28, 1970, at 6:15 pm Cairo time, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser died. Cause: heart attack. A minute before midnight, Egyptian vice-president Anwar Sadat announced the death to the nation. “Abdul Nasser is more than words,” he said. “He is more immortalthan all
GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ISRAEL, THEN AND NOW Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now. Not a year goes by without an attempt by someone to associate the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Palestinian cause. It’s particularly striking because while he lived, no one had much doubt about where he stood. Here, for example, is the late Edward Said, foremost Palestinianthinker of
NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. REPUDIATED PRESIDENTS AND ISRAEL Repudiated presidents and Israel. On January 20, 2021. January 29, 2021. By Martin Kramer. The end of the Trump Administration has prompted much stock-taking. Many have argued that Donald Trump was good for Israel. Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, brokering the AbrahamAccords
MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ISRAEL, THEN AND NOW Martin Luther King and Israel, then and now. Not a year goes by without an attempt by someone to associate the name of Martin Luther King, Jr. with the Palestinian cause. It’s particularly striking because while he lived, no one had much doubt about where he stood. Here, for example, is the late Edward Said, foremost Palestinianthinker of
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AT SAN REMO? At San Remo, “the title to Palestine was given to the Jewish people.”. The San Remo agreement is “the best proof that the whole country of Palestine and the Land of Israel belongs exclusively to the Jewish people under international law.”. “San Remo explains why Israel’s borders include Judea and Samaria.”. Indeed, in thejudgment
ABRAHAM ACCORDS: THE REAL DEAL? Abraham Accords: the real deal? On March 30, 2021 By Martin Kramer. Earlier this month, I interviewed David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador to Israel, for the Jewish Leadership Conference. It was a frank exchange, and I pressed him on the relationship between the “Deal of the Century” and the Abraham Accords. Was the deal conceived, atleast
SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO ISRAEL According to the May 31 ordinance, every soldier and officer would “take an oath of allegiance to the State of Israel, its laws, and its lawful authorities.”. Ben-Gurion had pushed for the swearing-in of the most senior commanders right through June, and finally convened them at the general staff headquarters in Ramat Gan on June 27. AMBITION, ARABISM, AND GEORGE ANTONIUS Martin Kramer, "Ambition, Arabism, and George Antonius," in Martin Kramer, Arab Awakening and Islamic Revival: The Politics of Ideas in the Middle East (New Brunswick: Transaction, 1996), pp. 111-23. An earlier version appeared in The Great Powers and the Middle East, 1919-1939, ed. Uriel Dann (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1988), pp.405-16. The world
WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. THE JIHAD AGAINST THE JEWS The Jihad against the Jews. Martin Kramer, “The Jihad Against the Jews,” Commentary, October 1994, pp. 38-42. ON JULY 18, 1994 a ferocious bomb explosion ripped through the seven-story building at 633 Pasteur Street, in the traditionally Jewish quarter of Buenos Aires. The building completely collapsed, and the final death countreached 85
MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE Israel would have preferred Mengele. On June 30, 2020. July 9, 2020. By Martin Kramer. I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaustcinema.
GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian NASSER’S DEATH, 50 YEARS ON Nasser’s death, 50 years on. Fifty years ago last night, on September 28, 1970, at 6:15 pm Cairo time, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser died. Cause: heart attack. A minute before midnight, Egyptian vice-president Anwar Sadat announced the death to the nation. “Abdul Nasser is more than words,” he said. “He is more immortalthan all
ELIE KEDOURIE
Martin Kramer, "Elie Kedourie," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-38. Kedourie, Elie 1926-1992 British historian of the modern Middle East For forty years Elie Kedourie was the most formidable practitioner of a dissident historiography of the Middle East, one who rejected the post-colonial dichotomy between Western guilt WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him. MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence.MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE Israel would have preferred Mengele. On June 30, 2020. July 9, 2020. By Martin Kramer. I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaustcinema.
GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of Palestinian NASSER’S DEATH, 50 YEARS ON Nasser’s death, 50 years on. Fifty years ago last night, on September 28, 1970, at 6:15 pm Cairo time, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser died. Cause: heart attack. A minute before midnight, Egyptian vice-president Anwar Sadat announced the death to the nation. “Abdul Nasser is more than words,” he said. “He is more immortalthan all
ELIE KEDOURIE
Martin Kramer, "Elie Kedourie," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-38. Kedourie, Elie 1926-1992 British historian of the modern Middle East For forty years Elie Kedourie was the most formidable practitioner of a dissident historiography of the Middle East, one who rejected the post-colonial dichotomy between Western guilt WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel. On January 13, 2013. January 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. This is a perfect opportunity to remind readers that since the last Martin Luther King Day, I solved the mystery of this quote attributed to him: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!”. NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him.ABOUT MARTIN KRAMER
About Martin Kramer. I research and interpret the history and politics of the Middle East and modern Israel. I was the founding president of Shalem College in Jerusalem, Israel’s first liberal arts college, where I continue to teach the modern history of the Middle East. I am also the Walter P. Stern fellow at The Washington Institute for REPUDIATED PRESIDENTS AND ISRAEL Repudiated presidents and Israel. On January 20, 2021. January 29, 2021. By Martin Kramer. The end of the Trump Administration has prompted much stock-taking. Many have argued that Donald Trump was good for Israel. Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, brokering the AbrahamAccords
VIDEO – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Sykes-Picot and Zionism. Martin Kramer explains why the Zionists fought against the Sykes-Picot agreement, in an address delivered at a conference on the centennial of the Sykes-Picot agreement, sponsored by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem, MaySAN REMO REDUX
San Remo redux. On February 15, 2021. February 17, 2021. By Martin Kramer. Readers will remember that back in December, I wrote an essay arguing that the hype around the centenary of the San Remo conference of 1920 was overblown and unjustified. Some people were claiming that San Remo, an event unknown to many Israelis and supporters of Israel FREE ONLINE COURSE! DECLARING ISRAEL’S INDEPENDENCE Free online course! Declaring Israel’s Independence. On March 3, 2020. June 28, 2020. By Martin Kramer. “We hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”. That declaration by David Ben-Gurion in Tel Aviv on Friday afternoon, May 14, 1948, the Fifth of Iyar, 5708, is themost
STARRING ADOLF EICHMANN Starring Adolf Eichmann. On June 1, 2020. July 2, 2020. By Martin Kramer. Sixty years ago, on May 23, Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion stood before the Knesset and announced that Adolf Eichmann had been brought to Israel to stand trial. It was an electrifying moment in the history of Israel, Jewry, and the world. ABRAHAM ACCORDS: THE REAL DEAL? Abraham Accords: the real deal? On March 30, 2021 By Martin Kramer. Earlier this month, I interviewed David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador to Israel, for the Jewish Leadership Conference. It was a frank exchange, and I pressed him on the relationship between the “Deal of the Century” and the Abraham Accords. Was the deal conceived, atleast
SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO ISRAEL According to the May 31 ordinance, every soldier and officer would “take an oath of allegiance to the State of Israel, its laws, and its lawful authorities.”. Ben-Gurion had pushed for the swearing-in of the most senior commanders right through June, and finally convened them at the general staff headquarters in Ramat Gan on June 27. PRISONER OF HATE: JEAN GENET AND PALESTINE Prisoner of Hate: Jean Genet and Palestine. This is Martin Kramer’s review of Edmund White, Genet: A Biography, published in Commentary, July 1994, pp. 46-49. On the morning of 19 September 1982, the French writer Jean Genet visited the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila near Beirut. Two nights earlier, Israel had permitted its Lebanese THE BALFOUR DECLARATION AND THE “JEWISH PROBLEM” The Balfour Declaration and the “Jewish problem”. On October 31, 2019. October 28, 2020. By Martin Kramer. The anniversary of the Balfour Declaration falls on November 2 (it’s 102 years), and I mark it with an essay on a neglected question. The record shows that British issuance of the declaration originated in the necessities ofwar.
MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Israel declares independence: new series. May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration ofIndependence.
MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of PalestinianSAN REMO REDUX
Readers will remember that back in December, I wrote an essay arguing that the hype around the centenary of the San Remo conference of 1920 was overblown and unjustified. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaust cinema.ELIE KEDOURIE
Martin Kramer, "Elie Kedourie," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-38. Kedourie, Elie 1926-1992 British historian of the modern Middle East For forty years Elie Kedourie was the most formidable practitioner of a dissident historiography of the Middle East, one who rejected the post-colonial dichotomy between Western guilt NASSER’S DEATH, 50 YEARS ON Fifty years ago last night, on September 28, 1970, at 6:15 pm Cairo time, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser died. Cause: heart attack. A minute before midnight, Egyptian vice-president Anwar Sadat announced the death to the nation. “Abdul Nasser is more thanwords,” he said.
WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL The pilgrimage would take place in November, and King insisted that it would have no political significance whatsoever. The organizers hoped to attract 5,000 participants, with the aim of generating revenue for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Council. NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him. MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Israel declares independence: new series. May 14, 1948. Ben-Gurion strikes a gavel. My new series on Israel’s Declaration ofIndependence.
MARTIN KRAMER
Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. GAZA – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I “called for ‘the West’ to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide.” According to the site, “Kramer proposed that the number of PalestinianSAN REMO REDUX
Readers will remember that back in December, I wrote an essay arguing that the hype around the centenary of the San Remo conference of 1920 was overblown and unjustified. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaust cinema.ELIE KEDOURIE
Martin Kramer, "Elie Kedourie," Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1999), vol. 1, pp. 637-38. Kedourie, Elie 1926-1992 British historian of the modern Middle East For forty years Elie Kedourie was the most formidable practitioner of a dissident historiography of the Middle East, one who rejected the post-colonial dichotomy between Western guilt NASSER’S DEATH, 50 YEARS ON Fifty years ago last night, on September 28, 1970, at 6:15 pm Cairo time, Egyptian president Gamal Abdul Nasser died. Cause: heart attack. A minute before midnight, Egyptian vice-president Anwar Sadat announced the death to the nation. “Abdul Nasser is more thanwords,” he said.
WHY MARTIN LUTHER KING NEVER VISITED ISRAEL The pilgrimage would take place in November, and King insisted that it would have no political significance whatsoever. The organizers hoped to attract 5,000 participants, with the aim of generating revenue for King’s Southern Christian Leadership Council. NEW YORK TIMES: SOFT SPOT FOR RASHID KHALIDI? This post first appeared on the Commentary blog on February 27.. There’s a brouhaha at Ramaz, the private Orthodox Jewish high school on the Upper East Side, around Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said professor at Columbia and promoter of the Palestinian hard line. Some students invited him to speak, but the head of the school didn’t like the idea and disinvited him.ABOUT MARTIN KRAMER
Martin Kramer on the Middle East is a website featuring the work of Middle East analyst and historian Martin Kramer. The site includes a weblog entitled Sandbox. ISRAEL DECLARES INDEPENDENCE: NEW SERIES Mosaic marks Israeli independence day with the first installment of my new series on Israel’s Declaration of Independence. This essay does more than lay out the series. Read the declaration and hear it read, and soak in the atmosphere that enveloped the Tel Aviv Museum on May 14, 1948, where David Ben-Gurion and his colleagues renewed Jewish sovereignty after a hiatus of 2,000 years. ISRAEL WOULD HAVE PREFERRED MENGELE I have the final word in the exchange with the three respondents to my June Mosaic essay on the capture of Adolf Eichmann. I touch on Hannah Arendt’s failings, the real reason Ben-Gurion wanted a trial, and the need for historical accuracy in Holocaust cinema. VIDEO – MARTIN KRAMER ON THE MIDDLE EAST Bernard Lewis, Fouad Ajami, and the Clash of Civilizations. Martin Kramer speaks in a webinar sponsored by the Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa (ASMEA), an association founded by Lewis and Ajami, February 23, 2021. REPUDIATED PRESIDENTS AND ISRAEL The end of the Trump Administration has prompted much stock-taking. Many have argued that Donald Trump was good for Israel. Moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, brokering the Abraham Accords, applying “maximum pressure” on Iran—it’s no wonder that most Israelis would have preferred a second term for Trump.SAN REMO REDUX
Readers will remember that back in December, I wrote an essay arguing that the hype around the centenary of the San Remo conference of 1920 was overblown and unjustified. ABRAHAM ACCORDS: THE REAL DEAL? Earlier this month, I interviewed David Friedman, Trump’s ambassador to Israel, for the Jewish Leadership Conference. It was a frank exchange, and I pressed him on the relationship between the “Deal of the Century” and the Abraham Accords. SWEARING ALLEGIANCE TO ISRAEL On what day did the Israel Defense Forces come into being? If you guessed May 14, 1948, you’re wrong. The actual date was May 31, two weeks after independence, upon publication of an ordinance establishing the army, signed by David Ben-Gurion.. Why did it take solong?
STARRING ADOLF EICHMANN Sixty years ago, on May 23, Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion stood before the Knesset and announced that Adolf Eichmann had been brought to Israel to stand trial. PRISONER OF HATE: JEAN GENET AND PALESTINE This is Martin Kramer’s review of Edmund White, Genet: A Biography, published in Commentary, July 1994, pp. 46-49. On the morning of 19 September 1982, the French writer Jean Genet visited the Palestinian refugee camp of Shatila near Beirut.Skip to content
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