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Death of Hope: Settling the E1 Bloc in Jerusalem
(2020-01-06)
A discussion of the E1 bloc in East Jerusalem and why it is critical to any negotiated settlement without war. The thesis (2012) is that the Israelis have decided to settle it, thus ending any possibility of a negotiated ...
Over Here and Over There. Arab American Perspectives on Foreign Policy Issues after 9/11
(Russell Sage Foundation, 2020-06-18)
This is an analysis of the perspectives of Detroit area Arab Americans and Chaldeans on major foreign policy issues in the aftermath of September 11. The view are put within a context of theories of opinion formation, and ...
September 11, Contemporaneous Observations from the Day, 20 Years After
(2021-09-07)
This is the text of a podcast on the 20th anniversary of September 11. It is based on journal entries made at the time. The focus is upon the actual day of September 11.
Intifada Deaths
(2021-05-15)
This is an analysis of data on the individual Palestinians who died during the first two years of the first Intifadah, which started in December, 1987. Analysis focuses upon day of death. Issues addressed include frequency ...
Review of Rubber Bullets, Power and Conscience in Modern Israel by Yaron Ezrahi, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.
(2021-09-01)
This is a review of the book Rubber Bullets by Yaron Ezrahi, published in the Middle East Journal, 1999. It discusses the thesis that Israeli has incorporated moral values into their military response to Palestinian ...
The Replacement Wars: Apocalyptic White Nationalism
(2021-04-18)
An analysis of nine manifestoes of The Replacement Wars ideology, and of three parallel European books. This is the belief that white people are being displaced from their own homelands and that their civilization is at ...
Review of H. V Savich, Cities in a Time of Terror. Space, Territory and Local Resilience. Routledge, 2008.
(2021-09-01)
This is a review of the book Cities in a Time of Terror by H. V. Savich. The author uses data to classify different kinds of targets and different kinds of attacks. There is a focus on why some cities are more resilient ...
Review of Gershom Gorenberg, The End of Days. Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. Free Press, 2001.
(Middle East Journal, 2001, 2021-09-01)
This book discusses the different types of millennial thinking, drawing distinctions between religious thinking and political extremism.
Henry Ford, the McGuffey Readers, and the Jews. The Baldwin Thesis
(2021-06-28)
Neil Baldwin wrote a book entitled Henry Ford and the Jews. His opening thesis is that Henry Ford learned Anti-Semitism from reading the McGuffey Readers and that that exposure explains Ford's thinking. Ford's newspaper, ...
Bernard Klein: RIP
(2021-03-25)
Bernie Klein (we never called him Bernard) died in 2020 from Coronavirus. He was a legendary professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and a public figure in Detroit politics. He had been an aide to Mayor Cavanaugh ...