As Netanyahu evokes "super-Sparta," Israel may be repeating the mistakes that left both city-states devastated after decades of war. On the eve of the Peloponnesian War in 432 BC, the wise king of ...
Many self-professed champions of freedom throughout the centuries have looked to ancient Sparta as an inspiration. The doomed stand of 300 Spartan warriors against the Persian Empire at Thermopylae in ...
Faced with increasing pressure from much of the world over Israel’s bombardment of Gaza and the sprawling humanitarian disaster that resulted, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked a ...