To shed light on the tensions he observed between Jewish perceptions of power versus political realitieswhich "are often the cause of misguided political decisions," like Israel's Lebanese WarBiale analyzes Jewish history from the point of view of politics and power. The author …
Argues against the accepted view of historians that the Jewish past in the Diaspora was characterized by political powerlessness. In fact, the Jews enjoyed considerable self-rule during the Middle Ages. Both Christianity and Islam held that the Jews' refusal to convert incurred …
"The United States' decision to recognize Israel was a calculated risk that pitted the goodwill and oil of the Arab states against the political clout of the American Zionist movement and a desire to redress the calamities visited upon European Jewry during World War II. Present…
"Ever ask yourself why during the 30 year period - between 1917 to 1947 - thousands of Jews throughout the world woke up one morning and decided to leave their homes and go to Palestine? The majority did this because they heard that a future national home for the Jewish people w…
A collection of articles about israel's right of establishment as a Jewish homeland and as an independent country.
A collection of articles about Israel's right of establishment as a Jewish homeland and as an independent country.
The term "lawfare' has come to describe the use of international law as a political weapon. The Goldstone Report, which was published by the United Nations in September 2009, and the Gaza flotilla controversy, which erupted at the end of May 2010, are examples of it. In both cas…
The author argues that Israel stands on the frontlines of a new struggle over the international laws of war and exposes abuses of law that have been promulgated by international human rights lawyers, UN bodies, and intellectuals to illegitimately circumscribe the right of libera…