Camp de réfugiés juifs accueillis en Israël, 1948. Par Robert Capa.

Roger Kaplan reviews Michel Gurfinkiel's latest book, "Israël peut-il survivre ?" (Will Israel Endure) for the Weekly Standard.

Miss Dati is a very high ranking member of a conservative government that is trying to lead France out of quicksands that are, to a degree, the reason she is who she is.

This book contains enough information to keep several seminars in Jewish history and Middle East busy for a long time.  Relatively compact for a book of such scope, it benefits from the terse, clear, fact-on-every-line, unambiguous and evidence-based style which characterizes Gurfinkiel’s journalism.

When he says schoolchildren should learn about the Holocaust, Nicolas Sarkozy is merely fulfilling a function that Aristotle defined as essential to statecraft, remembering the past and caring about the future.