The New Middle East

Thursday, February 29, 2024

If You Want Peace and Stability in the Middle East, There is only One Choice for POTUS: Joe Biden

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The Israel-HAMAS War has created another divisive issue in the 2024 United States presidential elections.  Following the brutal HAMAS attack...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

A Clear and Present Danger: How Benjamin Netanyahu Threatens Peace in the Middle East and Global Stability

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Itamar Ben-Giver, Benjamin Netanyahu and Bezalel Smotrich  Four months after the brutal HAMAS attack on southern Israel, it is clear that Be...
Sunday, December 31, 2023

The Day After: Israel at the Crossroads after the Gazan War

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The brutal attack by HAMAS terrorists on October 7 dealt a body blow to Israeli society.  Perhaps the most damaging aspect for the long-term...
Thursday, November 30, 2023

Blowback! Israel and the United States' Self Inflicted Harm by not Establishing an Independent Palestinian State

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If Israel, with the assistance of the United States, had created an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank following the 1993 Oslo A...
Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Beyond Historical Amnesia, Revenge and the Good-Evil Binary: Solving the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute Once and For All

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Israeli Personnel Recover Bodies of civilians killed  by HAMAS during its October 7th attack The barbaric October 7th HAMAS attack on Israel...
Saturday, September 30, 2023

Reflections on Edward Said's Orientalism after 25 Years

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The cover of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) It has been 25 years since Edward Said published his groundbreaking study, Orientalism . ...
Wednesday, August 30, 2023

East Meets West: The Rise of Far-Right Religious Nationalism in Israel and the United States

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Demonstrations against crippling Israel's Supreme Court In 1975, Dr. Ralph Coury wrote an article entitled, "Why Can't They Be ...
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Eric Davis
Eric Davis is Executive Director, MA Program in Political Science - Concentration in United Nations and Global Policy Studies, Professor of Political Science and the former director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA. He is author of CHALLENGING COLONIALISM: BANK MISR AND EGYPTIAN INDUSTRIALIZATION, 1920-1941 (Princeton University Press, 1983; Institute for Arab Development, Beirut, 1986, and Dar al-Sharook, Cairo, 2009); STATECRAFT IN THE MIDDLE EAST: OIL, HISTORICAL MEMORY AND POPULAR CULTURE (University Presses of Florida, 1993); MEMORIES OF STATE: POLITICS, HISTORY AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY IN MODERN IRAQ (University of California Press, 2005; Arab Institute for Research and Publishing, 2008; and the forthcoming, TAKING DEMOCRACY SERIOUSLY IN IRAQ (Cambridge University Press). Currently, he is writing a book on the Islamic State and the changing modalities of terrorism in the Middle East. He can be contacted at davis@polisci.rutgers.edu and @NewMidEast
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