An Israeli writer, although living here, offers the Israeli Likud party propaganda line. The purpose of that spin is to keep us shelling out billions a year from your pocket ...

On December 4, 1948, a letter was published in the New York Times signed by notable intellectuals like Albert Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and Sidney Hoo ...

A new premier in France and soon in Canada, a new coalition in Austria, new presidents in Georgia and Moldova despite ...

He went on the radio and ordered his Irgun soldiers not to fight the IDF ... It started off on the wrong foot with the Altalena Affair, but its leaders quickly understood the dangers of ...

There are manifest dangers in drawing historical lessons from popular culture, in this case an enormous bestseller from the ...

Both the Haganah and the Irgun Zvai Leumi organized underground ... As a rabbi and Jewish leader in the decades to follow, Herzel Kranz would devote countless hours to Israel’s cause in more ...

In other versions, Herzl himself or his friend and fellow Zionist leader Max Nordau sends the ... changed an incorrect reference to Irgun ‘rising up’ in 1942 as it had already been active ...

Clare historian, Tomás Mac Conmara explores the foundation of the Israeli state and its long history of conflict The oldest ...

Yitzhak Shamir who led the Lehi militant group, also known as the Stern gang and Menachem Begin, leader of the Irgun, another Zionist paramilitary organisation, received training and weaponry from the ...