Middle East Policy articles from September 2006

Middle East Policy archives from September 2006

Editor's note.
September 22, 2006... We are pleased to be able to offer in this issue the revised, definitive and long version, with its 227 endnotes, of the famous paper by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy." Its reputation precedes it;...

Middle Eastern views of the United States: what do the trends indicate?(Discussion)
September 22, 2006... The following is an edited transcript of the forty-fifth in a series of Capitol Hill conferences convened by the Middle East Policy Council. The meeting was held on July 20, 2006, in the U.S. Capitol Building, with Chas. W. Freeman, Jr.,...

The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy.
September 22, 2006... PREFACE In March 2006, we published an essay entitled "The Israel Lobby" in The London Review of Books (Vol. 28, No. 6, March 23, 2006). At the suggestion of several well-respected scholars who had read earlier drafts, we also posted a...

The Israel lobby and U.S. foreign policy.
September 22, 2006... Gunning for Syria Israeli leaders did not push the Bush administration to put the screws on Syria before March 2003; they were too busy pushing for war against Iraq. But once Baghdad fell in mid-April, Sharon and his lieutenants began...

Congress and the Arab heavyweights: questioning the Saudi and Egyptian alliances.
September 22, 2006... "When it comes to our allies in the Middle East, America too often turns a blind eye to their failings of leadership. We rightfully denounce countries with repressive regimes like those in Iran and Syria, but others such as Egypt and Saudi...

Winning the "war on terrorism": a fundamentally different strategy.
September 22, 2006... The latest events in Somalia are yet another warning that the United States, its Western allies and Islamic nations need to change their strategies to win the "war on terrorism." The basic lessons have been the same in Iraq, Afghanistan and...

Staying the course: permanent U.S. bases in Iraq?
September 22, 2006... Over the last few years, some reports concerning the question of "permanent" U.S. bases in Iraq have appeared in the U.S. press, mostly in its left-of-center or alternative political spectrum but also in some mainstream papers. These reports,...

Barriers to federal democracy in Iraq: lessons from Yemen.
September 22, 2006... After a lengthy delay, the Republic of Yemen held its first local elections on February 20, 2001. These elections had been postponed since the unification of the northern Yemen Arab Republic and the southern People's Democratic Republic of...

The Other Israel, Voices of Refusal and Dissent.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... The Other Israel, Voices of Refusal and Dissent, Foreword by Tom Segev and Introduction by Anthony Lewis. Edited by Roane Carey and Jonathan Shainin. New Press: 2002. 224 pages, $22.95, hardcover. The Other Israel, Voices of Refusal and...

Peace under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Peace under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement, edited by Josie Sandercock, Radhika Sainath, Marissa McLaughlin, Hussein Khalili, Nicholas Blincoe, Huwaida Arrafand Ghassan Andoni. Foreword by Edward Said. Verso,...

Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples.(Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel 1917-2002)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples, by Peter Rodgers. Nation Books, 2005 (originally published by Scribe, Australia, 2004). 147 pages. $13.95, paperback. Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and...

Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, by Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E Trainor. Pantheon 2006. 640 pages. $17.61, hardcover. Iraqi Perspectives Report, report for the Institute for Defense Analyses, 2006. ...

Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Thicker Than Oil: America's Uneasy Partnership with Saudi Arabia, by Rachel Bronson. Oxford University Press/Council on Foreign Relations 2006. 353 pages, including photos, notes, bibliography, and index. $28.00, hardcover. "Few...

Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Built a Nation.(Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805)(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Victory in Tripoli: How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Built a Nation, by Joshua E. London. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.276 pages, including notes and index. $24.95, hardcover. Jefferson's War: America's...

Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Journey of a Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy by Fawaz Gerges. Harcourt Press 2006. 320 pages, $25.00, hardcover. There is a journey that has taken hold in the minds of many young Arab men. It is a call to cleanse, to fight the evil that...