“Dayan and Eshkol were against taking the Golan Heights from the Syrians. Syrian troops, they both insisted, had thus far made no effort to cross the northern border, and both feared that extending the war to the north would provide… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“They often unfavorably compared Holocaust victims to the new, powerful Jews of the Yishuv who dislodged the British and fought off the Arabs with… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
Never does the Tanakh suggest that our being a people means that only we have a right to an ancestral homeland and that other… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Nasser was dead. Israel’s military superiority had effectively neutralized any Syrian threat. Pan-Arabism was a thing of the past. Yet once again, Israel found… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“He had an impeccable sense of timing, knew when to wait and when to move, and declared the state even before it was ready,… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Yet if mere Israeli survival was going to evoke Arab anger, Dayan then warned both his listeners and his entire newborn nation, Israelis had… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“THE BEGIN YEARS HAD not been easy ones for Israel, but they had been important. Israel had made peace with its once most potent… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Micah Goodman, a popular teacher on the Israeli scene and one of its young public intellectuals, wrote his first three books on Maimonides’s Guide… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
Ari Shavit's My Promised Land is without question one of the most important books about Israel and Zionism that I have ever read...This is… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“Herzl promised the readers of Altneuland not only a Jewish safe haven, but a Jewish state that would be a source of progress and… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
“The story of the return of the Jewish people to its ancestral homeland became, in short, one of the great dramas in the history… — Daniel Gordis Copy Share Image
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