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Shavuot’s lesson for Israel: Sovereignty without purpose cannot survive - opinion

· By JEFFREY KAHN
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As Israel approaches the holiday of Shavuot amid war, political division, and renewed international attacks on its legitimacy, it is worth revisiting one of the most unusual ideas in human civilization: The Jewish people became a nation before they possessed the land promised to them and enshrined in the law they re…

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