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Of Mufti and Men

The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

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The Balfour Declaration and the Fall of the Ottoman Empire

I think there were a lot of Arabs who would have been perfectly content to have the Jews remain as a 10% minority because they're clearly good for the economy. It was always then as now that it was a demographic question. And in that sense, I think it's always been sort of a zero sum game of who's the majority, who's got 51%. That's in many ways, that's what precipitated the revolt.

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