When Israelis pushed out Arabs in 1948, they didn’t think that embittered refugees would turn into a permanent threat to their new state. This was a catastrophic miscalculation.
The announcement comes following US President Donald Trump's meet with Israeli PM Netanyahu and his statements about 'takeover of Gaza Strip' & resettlement of Palestinians.
Trump’s claim that Gazans do not wish to return falls apart in the face of reality. The Kashmiri Pandits I have interacted with carry the pain of losing their homeland even decades later.
Michael Oren’s ‘Six Days of War’ portrays the former president of Israel, Levi Eshkol, as understated and under-appreciated. The man, however, ensured Israel won the war in just six days.
The vote came after Israel's parliament passed a law last month for temporary closure in Israel of foreign broadcasters considered to be a threat to national security.
Benjamin Netanyahu will likely take even more erratic actions against Iran, especially now that he is more isolated than before and finds himself on the losing side of everything.
David Ben-Gurion appealed to Nehru to help mediate with Egypt in 1963, ‘Your voice, my dear Prime Minister, carries a special weight in the councils of the world,’ he wrote.
This is an edited transcript of ThePrint Cut The Clutter Episode 1343, published on 8 November 2023, on the origins of US-Israel ties & why Israel is vital to Western interests.
India’s fast-growing data centre sector may strain state electricity networks; Central Electricity Authority has urged Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu to boost capacity.
China patiently invested capital, skill and technology in coal gasification. Unlike it, we won’t move from words to action. As crude prices decline, we lose interest.
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