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College Syllabus: “Zionism: Ideology and Practice in the Making of a Jewish State”
“Zionism: Ideology and Practice in the Making of a Jewish State” Scott Abramson, UCLA, Winter 2020 This course tells the biography of Zionism. Uniting social, intellectual, cultural and political history, it exhibits its subject in…
CIA Director George Tenet’s Israeli-Palestinian Cease-Fire and Security Plan, June 2001
CIA Director George Tenet proposes a cease-fire to stop vicious Palestinian-Israeli violence that carries on for four more years. The plan seeks to restore Palestinian-Israeli security cooperation, end incitement, arrest militants and establish mechanisms for accountability through the U.S.
Trump-Netanyahu News Conference, September 2025, “The Promise of a New Middle East Is So Close”
President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu explain their expansive vision for a peaceful Middle East through the implementation of a 20-point U.S. plan to end the Gaza war with the support of many Arab and Muslim countries.
Trump Plan to End Gaza War, September 2025
A comprehensive U.S. plan to end the Hamas-Israel war is unveiled eight days before the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack.
#151 Contemporary Readings September 2025
Maya Rezak and Ken Stein, September 30, 2025 Oded Ailam, “Hostages, Rival Clans, and Empty Promises: The Next Middle East Flashpoint,” Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, September 30, 2025. Neil Bar and Harel Chorev Halewa,…
Donna Robinson Divine, “Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power”
Divine, Donna Robinson, Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle for Survival and Power, Lynne Reinner Publishers, Boulder, 1994, pp. 191-215 (with author’s permission, September 2025) This is a rigorous analysis of the struggles of…
Neil Bar and Harel Chorev Halewa, “Constructed Autochthony Palestinian Nationalist Historical Revisionism”
Palestinian elites re-engineer antiquity to deny Jewish connection to the ancient Near East. Arguments include denying Solomon’s Jewish Temple, Palestinizing Jesus and appropriating Canaanite ancestry. These and other claims challenge the historical record that Jews were an ancient nation in the Holy Land. With permission of the authors, The Journal of the Middle East and North Africa, May 26, 2025.
Palestinian Authority Cronyism, Monopolies and Patronage, 1990s-Present
In pursuing its central political objective to control and lead the Palestinian Arab quest for statehood, the Palestinian Authority (PA) headed by Mahmoud Abbas is delighted to have multiple countries endorse a two-state solution. Affirming…
Mixed Muslim and Arab Views and Actions Toward Jews, Zionism and Israel, 1920s-Present
December 13, 2023, Poll of Palestinian Arab views, a survey completed two months after Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israelis, Palestinians praised Hamas actions, with a vast majority not believing that Hamas carried out atrocities…
