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Tag: Ian Lustick

Ian Lustick’s iron dice

On September 25, 2013June 29, 2020 By Martin Kramer

Ian Lustick has made a splash with his support of the "one-state solution." It's what one must do to keep up with the Saidians.

Ian Lustick says so

On March 27, 2006June 29, 2020 By Martin Kramer

Professors of Middle Eastern studies say the damnest things, and I'm collecting their wackiest assessments of Hamas' rise to power. Most of the so-called experts are at pains to suggest that the commitment of Hamas to its professed ideology is just show, and that the movement is really an improved strain of Palestinian nationalism, devoted to clean, …

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Goldilocks Warrior at Penn

On March 31, 2003 By Martin Kramer

Last week, a Columbia University anthropologist made the New York Times and other national media, when he told 3,000 students at a campus teach-in that "I wish for a million Mogadishus"—the 1993 battle that cost the lives of 18 U.S. soldiers. (By the way, the same prof also emitted this statement at a Columbia sit-in …

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Martin Kramer

I am a historian of the Middle East at Tel Aviv University, and research it at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

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