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Did a Biblical Outlaw Understand the Arab-Israel Conflict Better than Today's Students?

Did a Biblical Outlaw Understand the Arab-Israel Conflict Better than Today's Students?

Update: 2024-07-14
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It is commonplace to hear today's Israel-Arab Conflict portrayed as an example of Settler-Colonial European Jews settling in the nation-state of indigenous-dwelling Palestinians. This is a modern invention and is not how the conflict was understood by local Arabs a hundred years ago, who did so in rational terms that match the Biblical arguments between the Israelites (Gideonites) and local Ammonites in Judges chapters 10 and 11. Using the recent scholarly work of Jonathan Marc Gribetz as well as Alex Stein's Love of the Land substack, I show how the ancient outlaw leader Yiftach understood today's situation better than student demonstrators, colonial marxist professors, and Western Hamas apologists. 

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Did a Biblical Outlaw Understand the Arab-Israel Conflict Better than Today's Students?

Did a Biblical Outlaw Understand the Arab-Israel Conflict Better than Today's Students?

Rabbi Nadav Caine