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  • Civilians and soldiers attempt to rescue victims trapped in the debris of the ruined wing of the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Palestine, on 24 July 1946, following the explosion of a bomb in the basement two days earlier.
    Civilians and soldiers attempt to rescue victims trapped in the debris of the ruined wing of the King David Hotel, Jerusalem, Palestine, on 24 July 1946, following the explosion of a bomb in the basement two days earlier.
    Arts & Letters section icon
    Israel: The Original Terrorist State

    Bruce Hoffman’s riveting new history of pre-1947 Palestine reviews the violent birth of the modern Jewish homeland

    byAdam Kirsch
  • 1941 United States War Office map of the Middle East.(Library of Congress)
    1941 United States War Office map of the Middle East.(Library of Congress)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    How the Postwar Shift of Global Power to Washington Set the Stage for Today’s Geopolitics

    A new book examines the role of maps in shaping how policymakers imagined the new Middle East

    byAiyaz Husain
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