Palestinians have yet to wrestle with the legacy of the Mufti of Jerusalem.
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MLK: The Six-Day War interview
Did Martin Luther King stand up for the Palestinians?
The Nazi case for Hamas
A false equivalence has Nazi precedents.
The MLK Day bundle
Martin Luther King, Israel and the Palestinians: time to cut through the fog.
The ghost of annexation past
The West Bank has been annexed before. Jordan had lots of advantages that Israel doesn't, but it still ended in regrets.
The Trump plan: history doesn’t run in reverse
The Trump plan needn't be implemented to have historic effects.
How does Trump’s partition plan compare?
The Trump plan for partition belongs to a tradition.
What Did (and Didn’t) Happen in Room 16 of the American Colony Hotel
Did the Oslo process begin at the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem? No, but Room 16 still tells a tale.
If so, then why didn’t MLK condemn Israel?
They say MLK would have condemned Israel had he lived. So why didn't he condemn it when he was alive?
Who wants to celebrate partition?
Is the 1947 Palestine partition vote still worth celebrating?
The metal detectors of Islam
Muslims can scan Muslims with metal detectors. Jews can't.
The decline of Palestine studies
The numbers don't lie: Palestinian studies aren't what they used to be, and that's a good thing.
The original truck people
71 migrants suffocate in a truck in Austria. What does this recall?
Ian Lustick’s iron dice
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.
Chuck Hagel and linkage
Chuck Hagel says the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the "core conflict" in the Middle East? How does he know? Middle Eastern leaders told him so. But did they?
The NIC of time
The National Intelligence Council looks in the crystal ball at the year 2030. But its vision of Israel and the Middle East is occluded.
Israel’s national interests (not only for Chinese)
Martin Kramer gives a short account of Israel's national interests, much determined by Israel's small size, for a Chinese audience accustomed to thinking big.
Start with two Palestinians
Columbia's new Center for Palestine Studies makes it Bir Zeit-on-Hudson.
Obama’s Mideast priorities
Is Obama too clever or just confused? Martin Kramer joins panel with Thomas Friedman, Bill Kristol, and David Makovsky.
Smear intifada
Electronic Intifada, a death-to-Israel website run by Ali Abunimah, says that in my Herzliya Conference speech, which I posted two weeks ago, I "called for 'the West' to take measures to curb the births of Palestinians, a proposal that appears to meet the international legal definition of a call for genocide." According to the site, …
Superfluous young men
What contributes most to Islamic radicalism? Incitement? Lack of democracy? Occupation? Or just too many superfluous young men? Martin Kramer tries to answer, in six minutes.
Obama’s Middle East map in shreds
There is nothing at all surprising about Barack Obama's reluctance to embrace the surge for freedom in Iran. As I've shown, he received his primer on the Middle East from Rashid Khalidi, who facilitated Obama's formation as a Palestine-centric Third Worldist. In this view of things, only the situation of the Palestinians deserves to be …
Massad’s alcohol analysis
If you were a secular, liberal Palestinian intellectual (and perhaps a Christian to boot) living in the West Bank, would you have forebodings about Hamas coming to power? You might, and with good reason. Edward Said agonized over the Hamas problem, before reaching this conclusion: "For any secular intellectual to make a devil's pact with …
Did Hamas really win in Gaza?
Martin Kramer posted this comment in the thread "Did Hamas Really Win in Gaza?" at Middle East Strategy at Harvard (MESH). One way to approach this question is to ask whether Hamas has achieved the objectives for which it escalated the crisis, by its refusal to extend the cease-fire. Musa Abu Marzuq, number two in …
Haass and Hamas
Richard N. Haass is president of the Council on Foreign Relations. His last position in government was director of policy planning in the State Department, during the first couple of years of the Bush administration. The buzz in Washington is that Haass could be named special envoy for Arab-Israeli issues. The New York Times asked …
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