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“Build That Wall!” Refrain enthusiastically shouted during packed Donald Trump Republican campaign rallies around the US in 2016. “Tear down this wall!” Part of a speech made by Republican US President Ronald Reagan in West Berlin June 12, 1987, calling...

May 22 In History 124 BCE :  Simon the Hasmonean, drove the “Greeks” – the Syrians and their Hellenized Jewish allies – out of the citadel which was their last stronghold in Jerusalem. While Jews celebrate Chanukah, it is this victory, 40 years later...

Violence / Detentions — West Bank / Jerusalem 1 Palestinian, 1 Israeli killed, another wounded in Hebron-area settlement after attack BETHLEHEM (Ma‘an) 30 June — A Palestinian was killed on Thursday morning in an Israeli settlement in the southern...

By Avi Shlaim* in Louise Fawcett ed.,  International Relations of the Middle East, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, 241-61. Overview One of the salient strands in the international relations of the Middle East in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf...

The land of Egypt is far more mysterious than the history books say; it’s an ancient civilization with megalithic stone monuments and an advanced understanding of complex mathematics and science. New evidence has been discovered detailing an alien invasion...