Palestinians’ retreat into neo-tribalist politics under Yasser Arafat lies at the root of the latest phase of conflict with Israel, says Jim Lederman. The recent outbreak of fighting in Gaza has been accompanied by a wealth of descriptions and commentary…
read moreWhen Israeli forces entered Gaza in late June, the news media in the Arab world spared no adjective to describe the “Zionist aggression,” as the Syrian News Agency labeled it, or the “crazed racist extermination war,” in the words of…
read moreHamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of JihadBy Matthew Levitt(Yale University Press, 324 pp., $26)Available from SPMEMart at spme.org/spmemart.html for $16.38) Benny Morris , a professor Middle East history at Ben-Gurion University, is the author, most recently, of…
read moreIn an editorial posted on the new Arabic reformist website www.aafaq.org , the site’s editor criticizes Arab governments and elites who show no concern for the sorry state of the Arab world but are instead waiting until the end of…
read moreDear Brethren, the War With Israel Is Over By YOUSSEF IBRAHIMJuly 7, 2006 As Israel enters the third week of an incursion into the same Gaza Strip it voluntarily evacuated a few months ago, a sense of reality among Arabs…
read moreCOUNTERTERRORISM AND THEINTEGRATION OF ISLAM IN EUROPEBy Jytte Klausen Jytte Klausen is associate professor of comparative politicsat Brandeis University. Her most recent book is The IslamicChallenge: Politics and Religion in Western Europe (NewYork: Oxford University Press, 2005). This article is…
read moreSummary: Responding to the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier and growing violence in Gaza, statements from powerful NGOs such as Amnesty International (AI) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) show a clear emphasis on alleged Israeli infractions while downplaying Palestinian culpability.…
read moreThe Palestinians must be aware by now that they can no longer count on Arab help, economically, politically or militarily. They must defend themselves without waiting for Arab assistance. Half the Palestinian cabinet and many parliamentarians are in Israel’s hands.…
read moreWhen Israel completed its disengagement from the Gaza Strip, many assumed that after the withdrawal Israel would have far great legitimacy to conduct deterrence operations in Gaza, if Israeli territory would be attacked in the future. As a result, it…
read moreDawn broke yesterday over the Israel-Gaza border on a surreal but not unfamiliar scene: Rows of Merkava tanks, armored personnel carriers and Humvees were assembled in preparation for an incursion into the strip. These forces-when given the green light-would punch…
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