Efraim Karsh Quotes
Defending one’s state against external aggression is indeed the ultimate test of citizenship.
Karsh was arguing that Arab citizens of Israel should be required to serve in the Israeli army and fight against other Arabs who have repeatedly attacked Israel. The Israeli tradition has been not to require Arab citizens to fight against what might be their own relatives. Karsh and others argue that Italian-Americans fought against other Italians in WWII, German-Americans fought against Germans.
Efraim Karsh, English Political Scientist, Israel’s Arabs v. Israel,” Commentary, December 2003
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Many who oppose taxation of all kinds are very distressed by this quotation from Washington. This was made 4 years before the Constitutional Convention. Those who oppose military conscription are also not enamored by this quotation.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
President Benjamin Harrison and Congress proclaimed that October 31, 1892 be a national celebration of the 400th Anniversary of Columbus landing in America. Bellamy represented a juvenile weekly publication and was named chairman of the committee to conduct the celebration. A first draft of the pledge was written by James B. Upham, a staff member of the publication. The words "under God" were added in 1952 by an Act of Congress. The original had “to my flag.” The pledge was first used publicly at the Chicago World’s Fair on October 21, 1892. It was not endorsed by Congress until 1942. It is officially recognized as law in 36 United State Code 172.
Ataturk had been a military hero, but was very much opposed to war and military adventurism not unlike the Dwight Eisenhower and Colin Powell type leaders. However, the one thing that he thought worth the sacrifice of his own and other Turkish lives was Turkish independence and sovereignty. Historically, the Ottoman Empire which Ataturk finally ended, had dominated half of Europe and all of the Mid East at the cost of sovereignty of other nations and Ataturk saw no more important virtue with dying for than national sovereignty. See {125322} and {584501}.
See Carl Schurz {33636} for an 1872 version and G. K Chesterton for perspective {597471}.
Efraim Karsh (Hebrew: אפרים קארש; born 1953) is an Israeli–British historian, the founding director and emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. Since 2013, he serves as professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University (where he also directs the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies). He is also a principal research fellow and former director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank. He is a vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the traditional Israeli narrative of the Arab–Israeli conflict.
