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Reviewed by Rivkah Fishman-Duker At a dinner party in Jerusalem several months ago, one of the guests who was active in Jewish affairs and well informed about culture and politics in Israel remarked that sometime in the 1980s, Israelis had…
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The author of this recently-published book, Omar Barghouti, is a founding member of the Palestinian BDS campaign. In addition, the information on the book cover indicates that he is a choreographer and philosopher. He lives in Ramallah. The blurb of…
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Ever since Hitler and Stalin concluded a Nonaggression Pact on 23 August (and a Friendship Treaty on 28 September) 1939, it has been rumored that they made secret deals. This affected the lives of millions and led to the murder…
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Die Frage wird oft gestellt, wieso gewisse Juden alles daran setzen, Verleumdungen über den jüdischen und demokratischen Staat Israel zu verbreiten. Das Phänomen ist jedoch keineswegs neu. Als 1952 in der Tschechoslowakei der Schauprozess gegen Rudolf Slansky und Genossen stattfand…
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PREAMBLE: Why review a work of fiction for SPME, which generally relies on the research and analysis of historians, political scientists, demographers, sociologists, and practitioners of the higher journalism to unravel the morass of the Middle East conflict (otherwise known…
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Reviewed by Matthias Küntzel (translated from German by Mareike Enghusen) Dore Gold, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations, has used his expertise to describe the challenges of our times and call policymakers to action. For example, in his bestseller…
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Mitchell Bard’s The Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America’s Interests in the Middle East is an undisguised riposte to John J.Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt’s The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. That 2007 volume alleged that the…
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Efraim Karsh is head of Mediterranean Studies at King’s College, University of London, and one of the preeminent historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict. This author has had the privilege to be one of his students and to be exposed to…
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Dean Acheson’s memoir of the origins of the Cold War as seen from the top floor of the U.S. State Department (Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, NY, 1969) was and remains a classic text. Similarly,…
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Der Sammelband ist das Ergebnis einer Vortragsreihe des Moses Mendelssohn Zentrums Potsdam. Die Autoren beschäftigen sich mit dem Judenhass und arbeiten diesen bei den radikalen Rechten und den rechtsextremen Bewegungen in der deutschen und europäischen Geschichte heraus. In dem Band…
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