Zionism, the Jewish nationalist philosophy that underlies the state of Israel, entails two kinds of essentialism: Jewishness for Jews and anti-Semitism for gentiles. In other words, no matter how hard they try, Jews cannot stop being Jewish and gentiles cannot stop being anti-Semites. (But see Shlomo Sand’s How I Stopped Being a Jew.)
H-Bomb Remains Buried at the Beach
On February 5, 1958, a U.S. Air Force B-47 Stratojet bomber collided in mid-air with an F-86 Sabre fighter jet near Tybee Island and Savannah, Georgia. The crew requested permission to jettison the bomb, in order to reduce weight and prevent the weapon from...