Jabotinsky’s Lesson for Biden and Harris

More than a century after it was written the essay known as ‘The Iron Wall’ inspirits the Jewish state.

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The president of the World New Zionist Organization, Vladimir Jabotinsky, right, on June 12, 1940, at his home in New York. AP/Murray Becker

The Times is out with a dispatch about Vladimir Jabotinsky’s essay “The Iron Wall,” and from where we sit, it cannot come at a better time. More than 100 years since it was first published, the essay is emerging as a charter of common sense in a region that has been a magnet for magical thinking. Jabotinsky, before there was a Jewish state, saw that its survival would depend on a healthy respect for its enemies and a willingness to fight.

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