The Powder Keg of the Middle East In May 1967, as Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol grappled with escalating tensions, […]
The Gathering Storm: Egypt’s Provocations and Israel’s Dilemma On what should have been a day of celebration during Israel’s Independence […]
The Gathering Storm: Egypt on the Eve of War On the night of May 14, 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel […]
The Birth of a Divided Holy City When the first Arab-Israeli war concluded in 1949, Jerusalem emerged not as a […]
The Fragile Truce That Reshaped a Region Between June 11 and July 8, 1948, a 28-day ceasefire transformed the military […]
A Ship of Contention in the Birth of a Nation On June 20, 1948, the SS Altalena—a repurposed WWII landing […]
The Birth of a Nation Under Siege On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of […]
The Tinderbox of Palestine in Early 1948 By March 1948, the British Mandate of Palestine had become a powder keg […]
The Impossible Arms Quest for a Stateless People In the turbulent years following World War II, as the dream of […]
A Desperate Journey in the Cold January Wind On January 19, 1948, a middle-aged woman stepped off a plane in […]
The Collapse of British Mandate and UN Intervention By 1947, the British government found itself overwhelmed by the escalating tensions […]
The Great War and the Scramble for Ottoman Lands On December 16, 1915, in the hallowed halls of 10 Downing […]
