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Neil Rogachevsky

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3 years

It's pretty nice to be a superpower. America tells Israel to "pick a side" at the exact time it pursues its theory of "balance" between the Gulf states and Israel on one side and Iran on the other.

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1. OK, I'll bite. This is one of the worst accounts of the diplomacy surrounding the creation of Israel that you are likely to read. 🧵

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Folks, you can't have it both ways. You can't say Israel accepted the Partition Plan and at the same time that it does not matter that none of its terms will be implemented. Either it was accepted, and therefore Israel should call for its implementation *today* or it was not 🧵

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The Hebrew University administration calls out the presidents of Stanford and Harvard for statements “which don’t meet the minimum standard of moral leadership, courage, and obligation to the truth”.

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As many publications just get worse and worse, “Tablet” just gets better and better. Very impressive content coming from there.

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The situation in Canada is much worse than in the United States. And Canadian politicians, the public, and Jewish Canadians are much more listless and disengaged.

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An Israeli student attacked in Fredericton. Stones thrown at a Jewish student in Toronto. A Jewish girl’s school shot at in Toronto. A Jewish school shot at in Montréal. Union leaders pledging to be "human shields" for pro-Hamas mobs trespassing at the University of Toronto.

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22. For reference, I believe our recent book "Israel's Declaration of Independence" which I draw on here, advances a definitive refutation of the line of argument Gurmendi offers here. See particularly chapters 4,5, & 9. FIN.

Israel's Declaration of Independence

Cambridge Core - Political Theory - Israel's Declaration of Independence

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"The Strand" must be the most overrated bookstore in the world. Its philosophy and political science sections look like they haven't been updated since the Nixon administration.

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8. Gurmendi does not mention the other massive fact, which one might think bore on the ultimate outcome. The Arab Higher Committee representing Palestinians, & the surrounding Arab States, completely boycotted the Resolution.

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9. One could argue, as some Palestinian writers have, that the UN had no right to partition Palestinian lands & thus the Arabs were right to reject it. I disagree, but this at least reckons with the history. But it is simply undeniable that the Arabs rejected 181 and chose war.

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16. Thus the fact was that 181 and Trusteeship were failed plans as both sides committed to the war. The Zionists accepted war rather than perishing and the Arabs accepted war rather than allowing for a Jewish state.

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One thought prompted by this conversation. The US needs another “Operation Warp Speed,” but this time for ammunition production.

Bill Kristol

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1 year

NEW. A conversation with Eric Edelman, on the interlocking crises we face in the Middle East, Russia, and China, and the complex and unpredictable dangers ahead. And on how our domestic disorder makes the international disorder far more dangerous.

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7. So back to basics: the Jewish Agency, representing mainstream Zionism, accepted 181 at the time, in all its details. Not without regret, since they felt that the state specified by 181 would be difficult to defend. But better a state "the size of a tablecloth" than no state.

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10. The surrounding Arab states would debate their course of action for months. Within British Palestine war was immediately launched on the Jewish community. Thus began what some have called the first phase of the 47-48 war. Gurmendi does not even mention this!

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2. Based on tendentious scholarship, Gurmendi states that Zionist leaders in 47/48 did not really accept the Partition Plan (UN Resolution 181, passed by the GA Nov. 29, 1947). His evidence is that the Resolution was never implemented.

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18. The borders of Israel when the war concluded had been determined by the war itself, and not by 181. The Arab State did not emerge as Transjordan accomplished part of its war aim of conquering the WB and Old City. Israel was left with a larger landmass than 181 had promised

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14. Obviously, the Zionists rejected it, because Trusteeship, if implemented, would mean UN rule over Palestine and the cancellation of any Jewish state. But neither Washington, nor London, nor the UN ever figured out how to implement "Trusteeship" anyways.

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11. By the winter of 48, it became clearer that the Arab states were preparing for a large-scale invasion. The aims of Arab leaders differed, but the plan ultimately involved the destruction of the Jewish community of Palestine.

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21. None of this is to take a position on whether and how a two state solution or territorial withdrawal could have been accomplished later, or today. But let's be honest about the politics here. Gurmendi's abstract, ahistorical, and tendentious account does not help.

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5. For Gurmendi, the historical upshot here is that the trouble in Palestine came about through Zionist intransigence, rejection of international law and norms, and trickery. His international law claim seems to be that UN Resolution 181 remains in force.

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6. Now the fact that UN Resolution 181 was not brought about in 1947/48 is an undeniable fact of history. But oddly for a teacher of "war studies," Gurmendi mentions none of the military or even political context here!

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4. He implies that when Israel declared independence in May, 1948, the (tricky/perfidious?) Zionists proclaimed allegiance to Resolution 181 even as they did not respect it and would ultimately claim territory beyond the borders specified by Resolution 181.

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Thousands of ultra-Orthodox men eager to enlist—120 already enlisted. Sea changes coming:

אלפי חרדים מבקשים להצטרף ללחימה: 120 יגויסו ביום שני | פרסום ראשון

מדובר בין היתר בחרדים בעלי נסיון בתחום ההצלה והרפואה הדחופה, שישתלבו במהירות כתומכי לחימה במערכה זו. בצה"ל אומרים כי שיעור ההתנדבות מלמד על תהליך דרמטי בחברה החרדית

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12. This is the reason that 181 quickly became a dead letter. Gurmendi then blames the Zionists for rejecting the so-called Trusteeship Plan which, he claims, the UN proposed in February as an alternative to 181 & which the Arabs accepted

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15. The "Trusteeship Plan" to send UN troops to rule over Palestine, was just another harebrained scheme hatched in Foggy Bottom to pacify the region. The US itself, of course, was unwilling to commit the troops.

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13. Yes, the Zionists rejected the so-called Trusteeship Plan, which has a ham-fisted attempt by Washington to walk back its acceptance of a Jewish state in 181 in light of the perceived potential for "escalation" in the Middle East War.

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3. He notes that by Feb. 1948, the UN had abandoned the Resolution in favor of Trusteeship. This, he avers, did not come to pass because of Zionist intransigence.

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17. As in many other wars, as professors of War Studies might tell you, fighting happens on both sides of boundaries that were contested, as part of an international plan that was never implemented. The war was total, in all of Palestine.

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20. So, yes, by May 48, Israel said it was bound by all details of 181. How could it be? It became another in what would become a long line of failed international efforts to resolve the conflict. Both Washington and Moscow, recognizing Israel, saw the UN diplomacy had failed.

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19. Israel's Declaration of Independence in May distinguished between the inoperable details of 181, and the *fact* that the UN had recognized the principle of Jewish statehood. This was how the Resolution was treated (after extensive debate) by the declarers of the Jewish state

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Understandable as impulse, deeply misguided as policy. Especially as a small power, Israel must continue to persuade larger and lesser powers regarding shared interests and purposes. To quote a phrase, Israel needs a decent respect for the opinions of mankind.

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Israel doesn't want to win the global public sympathy anymore, because they know the only thing that works is Jews tortured to death, and even that only for a few hours.

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Some personal literary news: "Israel's Declaration of Independence" will be published this spring in North America by @CambridgeUP . It's available now in the UK.

Israel's Declaration of Independence: The History and Political Theory of the Nation's Founding...

Israel's Declaration of Independence brings to life the debates and decisions at the founding of the state of Israel. Through a presentation of the drafts of Israel's Declaration of Independence in...

www.amazon.com

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Neil Rogachevsky

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3 years

Mansfield in this Conversation more or less discloses the plan of the "Spirit of the Laws," which readers have been trying to figure out for nearly three hundred years. No big deal.

Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli as the Founder of Modernity

On Machiavelli as the founder of modern philosophy and politics, his idea of the effectual truth, and his influence on Montesquieu.

conversationswithbillkristol.org

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I’ve defended Bibi a lot over the years. I think I have some credibility when I say he has to take full responsibility and acknowledge it’s over for him, as soon as it’s safe to do so.

Yaroslav Trofimov

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1 year

Looks like the “nuke Gaza” minister Eliyahu has already been un-suspended. Netanyahu still wants to govern after the war, and is putting the preservation of his coalition with the extreme settler far-right ahead of Israel’s clear national security interest.

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With respect, this developing partisan position on the cause of Oct 7 isn’t accurate. Over the last year, the Biden admin had pursued an Abraham Accords-centric approach to the Middle East, as its predecessor had. Hamas feared this.

Omri Ceren

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1 year

Hamas's attack had been in the planning for 2 years. It didn't happen because they felt threatened. It happened because they felt emboldened.

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The late Angelo Codevilla wrote a great review essay of Ariel Sharon’s memoirs. As he shows in his discussion of 1982, Israel’s inability to articulate and defend coherent war aims has deep roots:

Ariel Sharon's Dilemma - Claremont Review of Books

claremontreviewofbooks.com

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5 years

There’s a nice little novella to be written about Chicago in the early sixties featuring A) Bernie cutting class to protest B) Direct contemporaries who also felt “the futility of liberalism,” but, under the influence of a great teacher, learned Greek instead of protested.

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@BillKristol Spinoza would have loved this.

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4 years

Brilliant on how administrative centralization has despoiled and weakened faculty.

KristolConvos

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4 years

New 🎙️ Podcast! @UVA 's Paul Cantor on the crisis in higher education:

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I have no idea how to read into Amazon rankings but this seems pretty promising for a book not yet released officially!

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@juliaioffe Similarly, the view that Nazi's had "concentration camps" first and only later "death camps" cleverly elides the deepest purposes of Naziism, which was genocidal hatred of Jews, apparent in all actions of the Nazis from the very beginning.

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@jonkay @TLNewmanMTL It’s pretty shocking but also impressive that the most thoughtful TV interview program in North America is from a province-run TV station in Canada.

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The hot take I want to read is by a Thucydides scholar who can tell us about politics and plague.

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It was only in the 1940s that Zionism came to be focused on a state, says Beinart. Wonder what happened in the 1940s that may have given them that idea...

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The amount of genuine liberal learning that Paul Cantor is able to deploy on command never fails to amaze.

KristolConvos

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3 years

New 📽️🎙️ release! Paul Cantor on Shakespeare and Comedy. 🧙‍♂️ 🥸🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🧚‍♀️🎭🎼

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One can draw certain distinctions between Judaism and Zionism, in theory. But today a large majority of the 16 million Jews in the world either live in Israel or have close relatives there. This is a family question before it is an ideological one.

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“MBS’s critics in the U.S. ignore that his efforts at modernization have offended and alienated many of his more narrow-minded family members. If his reforms fail or falter, we could be looking at a 1979-style Sunni fundamentalist revolution…”

Arthur Herman

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2 years

In advance of Biden's visit, my article explains how we and the Saudis are at a turning-point for the Middle East:

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Hamilton Center welcomes 21 new faculty members

The University of Florida’s Hamilton Center for Classical and Civic Education is proud to welcome 21 new faculty members for the coming academic year.

news.ufl.edu

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Neil Rogachevsky

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Delighted to have received the first (advanced) copies. Coming this spring @CambridgeUP :

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@juliaioffe Of course this is true, but what upsets me, and others, are explicit comparisons to the Holocaust which were/are made. The statement "there were other concentration camps" was a posterior deflection when some people realized they had gone too far.

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Greatest time of the year in Jerusalem. Cool, crisp, emboldening.

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Rather amazing that we are now nearly as far away from Strauss’ birth as he was from the birth of Hegel.

KristolConvos

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5 years

Earlier this week it was the 120th anniversary of the birth of Leo Strauss. Who was Leo Strauss? Why is his writing of enduring relevance? In this Conversation (from 2015), Harvey Mansfield @Harvard presented a great introduction to Strauss:

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The NYRB has utterly disgraced itself with its coverage of Israeli-Arab issues in recent years. Obscurantist, superficial, and morally deaf. But its recent articles are a new low.

The New York Review of Books

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“Israel’s ruthless, hate-driven enemies are perfectly aware that its polity and society are unraveling,” writes David Shulman. “They clearly saw their opportunity.”

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The Sopranos was only interesting as a comedy, which emphasized the disjoint between imagined longing for the “strong, silent type” and the reality of therapeutic postmodern society. A Sopranos set in the past, in a still not postmodern America, is just another gangster flick.

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Arthur Koestler's very un-PC account as to why the British in mandatory Palestine were pro-Arab.

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David Ben-Gurion, August 1947, on the stakes in the war he saw coming: "If the Yishuv is destroyed, it cannot be built again. Do not forget, friends, that this Yishuv was built by a Jewry that no longer exists."

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One reason you can see that Beinart’s essay is more about America than Israel is that, other than a few Anglo-raised Israeli journalists and scholars, no one is paying the slightest attention to this. Bi-nationalism is simply not a politically serious position in Israel.

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Reread Houellebecq’s “Elementary Particles” on a trip recently. Read it soon after it came out, in high school, on the suggestion of a Francophile friend. Understood none of it then.

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Re: Bob Dylan's 80th birthday. He was actually a bit older than the 1960s political and cultural actors the "voice" of which he was often called. By the summer of love he was already 27. His own formation may have been Bohemian but it was not Hippie.

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It’s such a comfort to see that the lessons taught at Glenn Beck’s chalkboard will endure, from generation to generation.

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January 5, 1895. Degradation of Dreyfus at the Ecole Militaire.

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Israel should unilaterally declare that it no longer needs American aid, thus freeing itself from this increasingly farcical but potentially sinister debate about "Israel" in U.S. politics.

The Intercept

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J Street is facing new pressure to back conditioning aid to Israel by @ryangrim , @MaryamSaleh

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Spotted at the wonderful Ludwig Meyer bookstore, Shlomtzion Hamalkah street, Jerusalem.

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Memorial for a fallen soldier at a Jerusalem pub.

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The funniest use of “Anglo-Saxon” has to be that of Israelis of a certain age who are still wont to use it to describe English-speaking Jews.

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I didn’t have to take mine down. It was thoughtfully ripped down and destroyed by a neighbor (before Oct 7).

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Abstract debates about antisemitism? I was at a Jewish friend’s tonight, a home I often visit, and couldn’t find the apartment door. I realized they had taken down the mezuzah by the door. I realized they were afraid to be openly Jewish in New York City in 2023. Crushed me

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Israel is so relevant to this argument about college tuition in the US. So glad it was brought up.

Glenn Greenwald

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Is there anything more inspiring than watching 2 of the USA's richest people - worth more than a billion dollars between them - mock the idea of free college? It's even more touching because they're both militarists who revere Israel & never ask how their wars will be paid for:

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Somehow the partition of Palestine 75 years ago and the following war—c. 30,000 dead, hundreds of thousands of refugees—is never compared to the other major partition of that time, which saw one million dead and perhaps twenty million refugees.

AFP News Agency

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VIDEO: Two brothers, separated when Britain split the Indian subcontinent 75 years ago, reunite for the first time During Partition, sectarian bloodshed killed possibly more than one million people, families were cleaved apart and two nations - Pakistan and India - were created.

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This will be fun!

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Let’s never forget the support of our Iranian friends throughout the diaspora during these difficult days.

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March about to start !

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Most amusing factoid that foreigners may not know about Yair Lapid. He wrote the preface to the Hebrew translation of Roger Scruton’s book “Conservatism.”

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I’ve never met Isaac Herzog, but I once saw him wandering through the cars of an Amtrak (regional—hard living in Israeli politics!) train looking for the café car, finally emerging with a Snickers. Could do virtually no wrong in my eyes since then.

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@SameeraKhan @annakhachiyan To paraphrase Henry Kissinger it's a shame both sides can't win.

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We do not realize how "pro-Shia" (in addition to pro-Russia) French elites have become. Every candidate excepting Macron sides with Iran.

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@aaronsibarium Am I the only one here who finds NW’s brand of cray quite charming?

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The comic character of Strauss’s “Jerusalem & Athens” has not been sufficiently appreciated. That essay can almost be understood as a joke at the expense of German neo-Kantians who thought the prophets could be made to sound like the most annoying Kant disciples.

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A little bit of Philip Roth goes a long way with me, but works like "American Pastoral" are worth revisiting. Recall the plot: A privileged young student from the burbs, disgusted by the perceived hypocrisy of her liberal parents, moralistically takes to willing the nothing.

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No hatred for non-Zionist Jews from me. In fact we remember how virtually the entire non-Zionist Jewish leadership in Europe was murdered in the Holocaust. We mourn them, while drawing the lesson that we need a state.

corey robin

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It's been noted before how much hatred Zionist Jews have toward other Jews. Note here the classic anti-Semitic tropes ("parasite", not holding a territory, ghetto) to describe those of us not signed up with the State of Israel. Zionism begins, in part, in disgust with Jews.

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Let’s get twenty six likes for a colleague’s very interesting looking volume.

Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature – Penn Press

Secrecy and Esoteric Writing in Kabbalistic Literature examines the strategies of esoteric writing that Kabbalists have used to conceal secrets in their writ...

www.pennpress.org

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@dbgreenwald Sorry there's a record here.

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Leo Strauss says in one of his lectures that dismissing “anti-Semitism” as the socialism of fools is insufficient, since there are always so many fools around.

Richard Hanania

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The thing about purging antisemites is there’s literally no benefit to having them in your coalition. They’re dumb, they’re poor, they’re unappealing to others. They detract intellectually and morally. It’s not like there’s some tradeoff. Easiest decision a movement can make.

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Jabotinsky—who loved La Coupole in Paris—the exception that proves the rule?

Mosaic

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Jewish writers loved cafes—Zionist leaders didn’t

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"Writing about being a humourist in his autobiography Over Seventy, Wodehouse quoted two people in the Talmud who had earnt their place in Heaven: “We are merrymakers. When we see a person who is downhearted, we cheer him up.”

The man who wrote the most perfect sentences ever written

In our latest essay in which a critic reflects on a cultural work that brings them joy, Nicholas Barber pays tribute to the blissfully escapist comic novels of PG Wodehouse.

www.bbc.com

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Likeminded Catholic intellectuals: “way to go! Important insights!” Likeminded Jewish intellectuals: “whatever merit there is in what you say, I said it first, in day school.”

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To such a notorious extent that it's comic anyone would write a revisionist history suggesting otherwise...

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Deuteronomy 4:6, referenced here, is crucial to philosophic religion: "Observe them faithfully, for that will be proof of your wisdom and discernment to other peoples, who on hearing of all these laws will say, “Surely, that great nation is a wise and discerning people.”

KristolConvos

@KristolConvos

4 years

What's the relationship between particularism and universalism in peoplehood, rightly understood? Leon Kass on Israel as one nation with a universal purpose.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

3 years

Not to be unduly "Tocquevillian," but his discussion of the virtues of jury trials really resonates in recent days. Even today, a jury can sometimes see through abstract moral considerations and slogans toward what justice demands in a particular case.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

2 years

Kraft could literally pay the tuition of every Jewish day school student in Boston for the cost of this sure to be futile vanity project.

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

2 years

New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, through one of his organizations, is funding a $25 million campaign called "Stand Up to Jewish Hate" to denounce antisemitism

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

8 years

Great discussion on the "mathematization of the human things" with Olivier Rey, Pierre Manent & Alain Finkielkraut:

Le monde et le nombre

Répliques : Samedi 15 avril 2017

www.radiofrance.fr

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

11 months

Avineri’s Herzl biography is the best in its class:

Herzl's Vision: Theodor Herzl and the Foundation of the Jewish State

Theodor Herzl began his public life at age 35 and died at the age of 44.

www.jewishbookcouncil.org

Hebrew University

@HebrewU

11 months

The Hebrew University mourns the loss of Prof. Shlomo Avineri. Avineri was a distinguished researcher and historian specializing in political philosophy. Renowned for his profound insights into the works of Hegel and Marx, as well as his contributions to the study of Zionism and

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

4 years

David Ben-Gurion in the 1950s with Avraham Rogachevsky, who employed Ben-Gurion as a day laborer when DBG first arrived in Palestine.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

4 years

Make Gaul great again

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

10 months

world’s best novelist now only gives interviews to low-brow Israeli radio stations & websites: “Michel Houellebecq expected wave of solidarity with Jews but none came”

Michel Houellebecq expected wave of solidarity with Jews but none came

One of the world’s greatest writers says now more than ever he believes Israel's existence is vital and events in Europe and the U.S. are proof that there must be a safe place for Jews

www.ynetnews.com

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

4 years

The bi-national state plan is not about Israel. It is about America, and particularly American Jews, at a very difficult time.

Peter Beinart's Wedge

The don of liberal Zionism has come out against a two-state solution. His argument is delusional and messianic. But that’s not the real problem with it.

mosaicmagazine.com

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

1 year

Jabotinsky would say: don’t read me, enlist.

Seth Mandel

@SethAMandel

1 year

Read your Jabotinsky, kids.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

3 years

Westerners who have been comparing Dugin to genuine civilizational thinkers of the last century have some serious apologizing to do.

Joanna Szostek 💙💛🦉

@Joanna_Szostek

3 years

The infamous "ideologist of the Russian World" Aleksandr Dugin has given a long interview to the Russian tabloid MK. If anyone in Russia has given up on capturing Kyiv, it is definitely not Dugin. A 🧵, if you can stomach it.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

2 years

CUP bookshop, King’s Parade, Cambridge.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

3 years

I don’t care too much about the “discourse,” but the most depressing thing stateside is seeing people who are clearly pro-Israel cowed into silence, as if afraid their membership cards in polite society would be revoked if they speak. And they might be right to fear this.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

4 years

Working on final notation for the book, in awe of two online sources. Yale's Avalon Project, and the Sefaria library of Jewish texts. Just incredible open access preservation of some of the most significant primary texts ever--and even more necessary in Covid times.

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

6 years

“What alarmed intelligence officials was that Miss Lokhova appears to have gained rare access to previously classified Soviet-era material in Moscow for her forthcoming book, The Guardian reported.” In other words, a good historian.

Cambridge graduate accused of being spymasters seducer to clear name

Svetlana Lokhova, 37, spoke with Michael Flynn at the Cambridge Intelligence Seminar, a gathering of former intelligence officials hosted at Cambridge University in 2014.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

3 years

It was great hosting @alexpriou for a terrific presentation on the importance of reading Plato, especially in times of great political tumult.

Reading Plato's Republic in America Today

www.yu.edu

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Neil Rogachevsky

@NeilRogachevsky

11 months

Response to Israel/Hamas strengthens Pierre Manent’s point that “ humanity” is becoming our only category. Many seem only to measure human suffering. But there’s no understanding this without grappling with “democracy,” “Islamism,” “Messianism,” “tyranny,” & above all “regime.”

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