יום שלישי, י״ד אב תשפ״וTuesday, July 28, 2026
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Efraim Karsh is research professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London; director of the Middle East Forum (Philadelphia); and author, most recently, of “Palestine Betrayed.”
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By Efraim Karsh
It is a historical irony that last week’s resignation of defense minister Avigdor Lieberman came on the heels of the 23rd anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination, for it can clearly be seen as the latest casualty of the slain prime minister’s “peace legacy.”
By Efraim Karsh
In April 1938, the British parliament was asked to approve a Jewish Citizenship Bill that would enable Jews worldwide to become nationals of Mandatory Palestine, where the Jewish national home had yet to be established in accordance with the 1922 League of Nations mandate. Though the bill failed to pass, with Parliament split right down the middle with 144 supporters and 144 naysayers, opposition stemmed not from rejection of Palestine as the national home of the Jewish People but from fear of Arab retribution.
By Efraim Karsh
Not all people , let alone refugees, are created equal. Meet the Palestinians, more "equal" than an other group of refugees in the world.
By Efraim Karsh
100 years ago with the Balfour Declaration, the international community, including the world’s foremost Muslim power, the head of the pan-Arab movement, and most Palestinian Arabs, accepted the legitimacy of Jewish statehood.
By Efraim Karsh
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict evolved in spite of the Balfour Declaration, not because of it.
July 24, 2026 
