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http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=29289 Time to face facts about the Palestinian movement: it is falling apart. There is no able leader today. And the glorification of violence, disdain for compromise, and deep factionalism whose seeds Arafat planted have now come close to destroying…
read moreMember of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East Yasir Arafat died one year ago, on November 11, 2004, but his legacy lives on as a very powerful force in Palestinian politics. Indeed, the collapse of the Palestinian national movement…
read moreMember of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East http://gloria.idc.ac.il/columns/2005/rubin/10_23.html This is a revised article based on the October 11 column. Despite endless talk about how the peace process should proceed, the Palestinian nationalist movement and the Palestinian Authority (PA)…
read moreThe struggle for democracy within the Arab world is one on which the fate of America, and perhaps the whole world, now rests. Still, how accurate is our understanding of Arab society, and how reasonable are our expectations? Experience has…
read moreBarry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, Interdisciplinary Center university. His co-authored book, Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography, (Oxford University Press) is now available in paperback. His latest book, The Long War for Freedom:…
read moreIt cannot be repeated often enough that Middle East politics are not like those of other places. It make sense once one understands the region?’s history, politics and institutions, but the region often defies the logic that semi-informed outsiders expect.…
read morehttp://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/Printer&cid=1122863986 097&p=1006953079897 The writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He is a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East spme.org In the extensive…
read moreThe writer is director of the Global Research in International Affairs Center, and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs. He is a member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East spme.org Since February 2005 there has…
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