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Regarding the MW controversy, and especially the ridiculous articles by Tony Judt (NY Times) and Richard Cohen (Washington Post) defending the paper. 1. hundreds of articles, books and speeches every year say that Israel’s supporters have tremendous and too much…
read moreWe are starting to see how the contending Palestinian groups are dealing with the Hamas takeover of the government. Hamas does not expect to change everything overnight. After all, its members often say that 20 years will be needed to…
read moreBarry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university and is a member of Scholar for Peace in the Middle East spme.org . We have come full circle. Here is how the last…
read moreBarry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (Gloria) Center, Interdisciplinary University, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He is a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East The landslide victory…
read moreBarry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university and a visiting professor at American University and member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East spme.org . His co-authored book, Yasir Arafat:…
read moreThe disabling stroke suffered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has shaken up Israeli politics but is unlikely to have much effect on the country’s society or political views. Sharon was considered a certain victor in the upcoming March elections,…
read moreThe world is about to rethink its views of the whole Arab-Israeli conflict, due to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s past policy shift, his evident departure from politics, and Palestinian developments. The critical variable here is not what has happened to…
read moreBarry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university and is a member of Scholar for Peace in the Middle East spme.org . Fouad Ajami, the Lebanese-American analyst, notes the contradiction of “an…
read morehttp://gloria.idc.ac.il/columns/2005/rubin/12_20.html Just a year after Yasir Arafat’s death, the Palestinian movement is falling apart. It should not too hard to understand the consequences of this development: –With no Palestinian leadership there is no one capable of making peace with Israel.…
read morehttp://gloria.idc.ac.il/columns/2005/rubin/12_06.html Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university and visiting professor at American University. His coauthored book, Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography, (Oxford University Press) is now available in paperback and…
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