Hazony's forgotten ally: the Jewish Army Committee.(analysis of The Jewish State: The Struggle for Israel's Soul.)

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No man is strong or wealthy enough to move a people. Only an idea can do that.

-- Theodor Herzl

All good history is revisionist -- it revises, adds to, and clarifies our understanding of the past. However, not all revisionist history is good history. Such bad revisionist history is found in David Irving's Hitler's War. (1) Amazingly, there is also revisionist history written by Jews in Israel. Israel's "new historians," like Tom Segev, who also call themselves "Post-Zionists," have been questioning the justice of Zionist claims to the land, and they generally denigrate ...

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