Stephen P. Halbrook

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Alienation of a Home-land: How Palestine Became Israel

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Stephen P. Halbrook

The crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the Palestinian question, and the crux of the Palestinian question is: who justly owns the land of Israel or Palestine? The parties involved in the Middle East...

Left Hegelianism, Arab Nationalism, and Labor Zionism

07/30/2014 Journal of Libertarian Studies Stephen P. Halbrook

A significant portion of the conflicting leftist ideologies of the contemporary Middle East -in particular, the socialist philosophies of both Arabs and Israelis-is an outgrowth of nineteenth-century...

Tyranny and the Monopoly of Arms

12/18/2012 Mises Daily Stephen P. Halbrook

What, then, is the real reason why the power elite wants to leave the people defenseless? It has already been observed that guns are necessary for peaceful individuals to protect themselves from criminals. But who has been the most ferocious criminal in history? It is obvious: the State!

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