2009 August | Hichem Karoui

War, State, and Markets in the Middle East

The Political Economy of World Wars I and II
Excerpts from:
War, Institutions, and Social Change in the Middle East
Steven Heydemann, Berkeley: University of California Press
2. Guns, Gold, and Grain
War and Food Supply in the Making of Transjordan
Tariq Tell
In 1924, a “commentator on Middle Eastern affairs” who wrote under the pseudonym Xenophon, remarked that “of all the [...]

Before Taliban

Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
David B. Edwards
Berkeley University of California Press
Excerpts: Part III The Islamic Jihad

6. Muslim Youth

Qazi Amin (courtesy of Qazi Amin).

Qazi Amin speaking at the dedication of a new high school, Kot, Ningrahar, post-1989 (courtesy of Qazi Amin).

The development of an Islamic movement in a country depends on the [...]

F.D.R. MEETS IBN SAUD

By WILLIAM A. EDDY
BEFORE THE ALLIED LANDING ON THE COAST OF North Africa on November 8, 1942, the handful of us who knew the date and place of the landings were terrified lest we might talk in our sleep. In those days before the landings it was imperative that one neither cancel nor increase normal [...]

Jerusalem

Israeli Settlement Activities & Related Policies
Palestinian Academic Society for the Study of International Affairs, Jerusalem
Throughout history, Jerusalem has thrived as an important political and cultural center and as a religious focal point for the three monotheistic religions. This status has resulted in numerous struggles taking place in an attempt to possess this significant city.
From [...]

History of Islamic Science

Prof. Hamed A. Ead Based on the book Introduction to the History of Science
by George Sarton
George Sarton’s Tribute to Muslim Scientists in the “Introduction to the History of Science”:
“It will suffice here to evoke a few glorious names without contemporary equivalents in the West: Jabir ibn Haiyan, al-Kindi, al-Khwarizmi, al-Fargani, al-Razi, Thabit ibn Qurra, [...]

Truman and the Creation of the Jewish Army

United States support for the partition of Palestine was crucial to the adoption of the UN partition plan and to the creation of the state of Israel. During World War II, the USA was anxious to maintain good relations with Saudi Arabia. President Roosevelt had promised King Saud that the USA would [...]

The Kennedys vs Israel’s Lobby

Grant F. Smith
Director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP)
In this story Grant reveals the emerging details of the secret battles between the Kennedys and the Israel lobby.
AIPAC Founder Isaiah L. Kenen and Ted Kennedy
The lobby’s accolades for the late Ted Kennedy and his support of Israel mask the generally [...]

The U.S. and Saudi Arabia Since the 1930s

by David Ottaway
August 2009
Vol 14, No 21
There have been two constants in U.S.-Saudi relations for decades: oil and Gulf security, particularly the security of the Saudi royal family. Our two societies have had little in common, and yet despite deep differences, we have had a “special relationship” with the Kingdom of Saudi [...]

Hamas 2.0

Michael Bröning
Foreing Affairs
For decades, Western decision-makers have viewed Hamas as a terrorist organization that seeks to destroy the state of Israel and thus will never accept a territorial compromise based on a two-state solution.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently reiterated that assessment in a July 14, 2009, speech in Tel [...]

Neo-Conservatism Explained

by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Lew Rockwell Archives

Commentators across the spectrum have finally clued in to neo-conservatism as the intellectual framework of the Bush administration. We are suddenly faced with long think pieces on the role of political philosopher Leo Strauss in influencing the [...]

Project for the New American Century

Tom Barry

The International Relations Center

The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) was established in 1997 by a number of leading neoconservative writers and pundits to advocate aggressive U.S. foreign policies and “rally support for American global leadership.” One of the group’s founding documents claimed, “a Reaganite policy of military strength [...]

The Neoconservative Convergence

Why the “vast right-wing conspiracy” is working.

By: Charles Krauthammer
From the issue of July 05, 2005, Commentary magazine

The post-cold-war era has seen a remarkable ideological experiment: over the last fifteen years, each of the three major American schools of foreign policy—realism, liberal internationalism, and neoconservatism—has taken its turn at running things. (A fourth school, [...]

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