Both wanted Jews to have a part in fighting the Ottomans in Palestine with the hope of gaining a stake in the post-war peace there.
(For a show that's supposed to be about life and death stakes in a post-apocalyptic world, these characters sure spend a lot of time standing around and speechifying. And don't get me wrong, I love great dialogue scenes, but these conversations can be extremely repetitive).
The war for influence and truth in the Middle East is bitterly contested and has perhaps become even more so as the stakes in the post-revolutionary region continue to rise.
At State, we worked on a plan to offer Russia NATO membership, hoping to give Moscow a stake in Europe's post-Cold War security system — the same system it seeks to upend today with its occupation of Crimea.
First, Russia wants clear guarantees that its economic interests in Iraq will be protected (this means guarantees on debt payment and giving Russian oil interests a big stake in a post-Hussein Iraq).
Brazil and Turkey's recent alliance with Iran on uranium enrichment is not quite a stake in the heart of post-war American foreign policy, but epitomizes the post-globalization realities that are in the process of transforming U.S. foreign policy assumptions, planning, and actions.
State-owned Telekom Malaysia is also manoeuvring to salvage TRI, the country's second-largest mobile-phone operator, from Mr Tajudin's empire.But Malaysia's government still tolerates murky dealings when it suits: last year, for instance, it sold a stake in the post office without any sort of public tender.
The visual effects specialist bought a controlling stake in UK post-production group VTR last year and now employs 250 people.
"Motorola really wanted to put a stake in the ground in the post-PC world," said Jonathan Cranin, a creative director at McCann-Erickson.
The loss of idealism in South Africa is a blow not just to her own citizens, but to all of those who felt they had a stake in the realisation of the post-apartheid dream.
