1973, 2003, and now 2023. How wars repeat themselves.
Author: Martin Kramer
How Hamas deterred Netanyahu
The forgotten history of toppling Hamas.
The Nazi case for Hamas
A false equivalence has Nazi precedents.
Golda Meir’s filtration system
Could Bernard Lewis have prevented the Yom Kippur war?
Bernard Lewis and world leaders
Bernard Lewis met the mighty. Did he influence them?
Israel from 25 to 75
What has Israel learned since 1973? Don't blindly trust leaders.
What “judicial reform” is really about
The crisis in Israel goes way beyond judges and courts.
The flight from MESA
Institutions and individuals are leaving MESA in droves.
To boycott or not to boycott?
How can MESA members dissent from its boycott madness?
Barbara Walters, impresario of peace
A celebrity journalist and the diplomacy of spectacle.
The (sad) state of Middle Eastern studies
Aside from double standards, politicization, boycotts, and foreign money, Mideast studies are just fine.
Israel boycotters convene in Denver
MESA, now a boycott-Israel association, pretends to be academic.
The center cannot hold at Middle East centers
Academe's money machines are broken.
Semites, antisemites, and Bernard Lewis
Was Bernard Lewis a victim of Arab antisemitism?
Israel: 74 years of independence
Israel's declaration of independence: this is the day to reread it.
The incredible shrinking MESA
MESA has left behind scholarship for boycott politics.
Ivory Towers and Twin Towers, 20 Years Later
Two decades later, Middle Eastern studies are still stuck.
Declaring Israel united it
Not the spirit of a person or a party, but of a people.
Ardeshir Zahedi: legend and lesson
The Shah's last ambassador dazzled Washington, and blinded it.
Israel’s default constitution
Israel's declaration of independence isn't a constitution. Or is it?
Ivory Towers on Sand at 20
My 20 years of running commentary on Middle Eastern studies.
The right of the Jewish people
There are no individual rights without this collective one.
The paradoxical Jabotinsky
Does Jabotinsky's legacy include evacuation of settlements?
Did the UN create Israel?
How Israel's founders cherry-picked the UN partition resolution.
Will the real founders please stand up?
The year is 1949. Cast your vote for a founder of Israel!
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