Posted in Geopolitics, Malik Mufti, Martin Kramer, Michael Young, Terminology, Walter Reich on Jun 12th, 2008 8 Comments »
From Martin Kramer
Last September, when I arrived in Cambridge for my fall stay at Harvard, I opened the Boston Globe and saw this headline over an editorial: “The Other Middle East Conflict.” I immediately said to myself: well, I know what the Middle East conflict is—that’s the Israelis and the Palestinians. So what is [...]
Posted in Geopolitics, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, Israel, Jon Alterman, Lebanon, Malik Mufti, Steven A. Cook, Syria, Turkey on Jun 6th, 2008 4 Comments »
From Jon Alterman
A funny thing has happened in the Middle East: virtually all of the government opposition to the United States has gone away. After almost a half-century of Cold War battles to protect oil fields, deny Soviet access to warm-water ports, and commit hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, the number of Middle [...]
Posted in Efraim Karsh, Geopolitics, Israel, Jordan, Palestinians, Robert Satloff on Apr 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
In an April 16 op-ed entitled “Back to the Jordanian Option,” Giora Eiland, former head of Israel’s National Security Council, argued that an Israeli-Palestinian final status agreement is “unfeasible in the foreseeable future.” He asked: “So what should we do?”
We should reshuffle the cards and try to think about other solutions as well. One [...]
Posted in Bernard Lewis, Geopolitics on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
From Bernard Lewis
One hears a great deal in the Middle East, and to some extent elsewhere, of American imperialism. This is a term which is both inaccurate and misleading; it reveals a lack of understanding both of what America is about and of what the word ‘imperialism’ means.
Posted in Geopolitics, Maps on Mar 9th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
This past November, Le Monde diplomatique published a map (in English) entitled “Geography of Chaos,” illustrating conflicts in the Middle East. The map shows major conflicts; areas of high tension; states or territories at war, in fragmentation, or lacking central authority; arrows indicating the possible spread of chaos; states aligned with the United [...]
Posted in Geopolitics, Israel, Maps, Palestinians on Mar 4th, 2008 No Comments »
From MESH Admin
Two recent maps are useful guides to aspects of the present situation in the West Bank. To view each map in full, click on the thumbnail (a pdf file will open).
Posted in David Schenker, Egypt, Geopolitics, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Maps, Palestinians on Jan 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
From MESH Admin
At last week’s Herzliya Conference, Tel Aviv University geographer Gideon Biger presented a futuristic plan for land swaps and border alterations among Israel, the Palestinians, Egypt, Jordan, and Lebanon. Biger, author of The Boundaries of Modern Palestine, 1840-1947, proposes a map based on 1967—that is, each party would end up with the same [...]
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