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  • Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on June 10, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
    Iraqi families fleeing violence in the northern Nineveh province gather at a Kurdish checkpoint in Aski kalak, 40 kms West of Arbil, in the autonomous Kurdistan region, on June 10, 2014. (SAFIN HAMED/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Iraqi Insurgents Boast They’re Building an Arab Super-State

    They’re hardly the first to try, or make this claim

    byLee Smith
  • Lord Balfour in Rishon Lezion in 1925.(Library of Congress)
    Lord Balfour in Rishon Lezion in 1925.(Library of Congress)
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    Founding Document

    A new book argues for the enduring significance of the 1917 Balfour Declaration

    byAdam Kirsch
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