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Tag: israel
Trump Challenges Assumptions Again
This post concerns an article on the bizarrely named website “Slugger O’Toole,” about Trump’s willingness to recognize Russian control of the Crimea. This lengthy article is a fascinating mixture of insights and misconceptions. To start with the latter, it repeats, of course, the usual pablum about Westphalia and the origins of sovereignty. It also engages …
What is a Religious War?
Today’s article comes from an interesting place: a discussion of religious conflict in Israel, published 3 days before the Palestinian attack. Even more surprising, it is not about a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims, but one among Jews. The subject is a statement by an Orthodox member of the Knesset that the current social …