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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…
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Hillel Halkin
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Philadelphia, United States of America
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
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1976
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Israel is the cause of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
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Alan Dershowitz
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Cambridge, United States of America
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2003
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Let’s start with risk. The risk of being punished. The risk of being isolated. The risk of being injured or killed. The risk of being scorned. We are all conscripts in one sense or another. For all of…
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Susan Sontag
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New York, United States of America
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2003
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“One question, Reschid Bey,” interrupted Kingscourt. “These gentlemen will pardon me, but you are much too modest. Were not the older inhabitants of Palestine ruined by the Jewish immigration? And…
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Theodor Herzl
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1902
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Now I want to talk about the approach to the Arab question. When I was discussing Brit Shalom [Covenant of Peace], I asked: Can there be a common position of Zionists and non-Zionists on this question…
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Berl Katznelson
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1930
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September 7, 1912. The French enter Marrakesh. Marching through the Djema el Fna Square, surrounded by his general staff, Colonel Mangin is surprised to hear, amid the discordant noises of the crowd…
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José Bénech
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Marrakesh, French Protectorate in Morocco
(Morocco)
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1940
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Among the Jews of Europe, acute feelings of difference always fade with the passage of time. The school, the army, and politics have a unifying force; integration comes about through cultural channels…
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Marcel Bénabou
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1964
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This appraisal of the west has remained Toynbee’s considered judgment. “In my eyes,” he states in the last volume of A Study of History, published in 1961, “the west is a…
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Elie Kedourie
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1970
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Among the diverse races of Algeria, the Jewish population merits special attention.
At first glance, one sees a mass of people who comprise approximately one-fifth of the total civilian population…
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Jacques-Isaac Altaras and Joseph Cohen
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Marseille, Kingdom of France
(Marseille, France)
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1842
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Why did the American Jewish Congress send a group of its leaders to Cairo, Amman and Jerusalem to meet with leaders there?
The delegation, which met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, Jordan’s…
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Henry Siegman
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1985