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Tim OrrThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
The war didn’t start the night the bombs fell. By then, it had been building for years—just not in a way people wanted to admit. You could see it,...
Most Western explanations of Iran start in the same place: colonialism, anti-imperialism, or the country’s rivalry with the United States and...
Iran is one of the few societies in Islamic history where religious scholars eventually replaced the monarchy itself. In most Muslim states, rulers...
History occasionally produces events that overturn the intellectual frameworks used to interpret the modern world. The French Revolution did this in...
My personal journey into understanding why Iran is so intensely hostile toward Israel began when I studied at the Islamic College in London, which...
In my previous essay, “Trump’s Broken Promise: From ‘America First’ to ‘America Only’ – and Antisemitism,” I argued that the recent...
It might be that the West’s greatest weakness is not military or economic, but moral and institutional. We continue to argue over the number of...