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Aug 16, 2018, 10:44 PM

Napoleon’s Proclamation to Jews Known to Ottomans

Ahmet Cevdet Pasha, Tarih-i Cevdet, Vol. 6, p. 282, New Edition, 2nd Printing (H. 1309).

While campaigning in Israel in 1799, did General Napoleon Bonaparte issue a "proclamation" to the Jews? Twenty-first-century historians are divided. But, the deeper story is not simply whether he did so in Israel, but also the one or more...

Dec 28, 2016, 11:35 AM

Settlement Rights of the Jewish People

Foreword The following essay is no exhaustive survey of the claims of modern Israel as a sovereign country within the international States' system. Rather, emphasis here is on the companion aspect of the settlement rights of the Jewish People, as...

Nov 26, 2014, 11:08 PM

Aboriginal Rights of the Jewish People

Reconciling subsequent rights of the Palestinian People with prior rights of the Jewish People. Allen Z. Hertz was senior adviser in the Privy Council Office serving Canada's Prime Minister and the federal cabinet, including with respect to aboriginal issues. He formerly worked in Canada's Foreign...

Feb 26, 2014, 7:18 AM

Obama: “Young Muslim Socialist that I used to be”

Is it okay to ask about Obama's religion? June 4, 2009 in Cairo was one of several occasions when Barack Obama reminded us: "I'm a Christian." President Obama there chose to again broach the sensitive matter of his personal religious belief,...

Feb 19, 2014, 12:37 PM

Obama taking away Israel’s nukes?

Mideast "linkage" is the notion that more distant issues like the Syrian civil war and/or Iran's race to nuclear weapons could in some meaningful sense be significantly related to the question of Israel's negotiations with the Palestinian Authority. In regard...

Feb 18, 2014, 7:18 PM

Aboriginal rights of the Jewish People

Reconciling subsequent rights of the Palestinian People with prior rights of the Jewish People. "The Jewish people have forged a successful state in their historic homeland," said USA President Barack Obama in his speech to the General Assembly of the United...

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Allen Z. Hertz was senior adviser in the Privy Council Office serving Canada's Prime Minister and the federal cabinet. He formerly worked in Canada's Foreign Affairs Department and earlier taught history and law at universities in New York, Montreal, Toronto and Hong Kong. He studied history at McGill University (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A., Ph.D.). He also has international law degrees from Cambridge University (LL.B.) and the University of Toronto (LL.M.).