Category Archives: Middle East
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Kafka in Palestine
1July 26, 2011 by IJV
Prague 1914; Haifa, then London, 2011. What happens when a short story written by a secular German Jew – Franz …
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Bittersweet
Leave a commentJuly 20, 2011 by IJV
At one level the IJV meeting on THE ARAB UPRISINGS AND THE ISRAEL PALESTINE CONFLICT, was most encouraging. The range …
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IJV panel on the Arab uprisings and the Israel-Palestine conflict
Leave a commentJuly 19, 2011 by Antony Lerman
Chaired by Professor Jacqueline Rose (Queen Mary, University of London), the IJV panel event discussing the impact of the Arab Spring …
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Black propaganda and violent rhetoric: Israel shoots itself in the foot over the Gaza flotilla
Leave a commentJune 28, 2011 by Antony Lerman
Some first rate bloggers and journalists are covering the Gaza flotilla and revealing the lengths to which the Israeli authorities …
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Bibi’s speech to the US Congress: a flagrant denial of the autonomy and diversity of Jews worldwide
Leave a commentMay 26, 2011 by Antony Lerman
There were so many fictions and distortions in Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech to the US Congress on 24 May, so many …
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From ‘Yes We Can’ to ‘No We Can’t’: Obama’s Middle East Speech Lowers Expectations of American Power
Leave a commentMay 23, 2011 by Antony Lerman
In a relatively low-key speech on his administration’s Middle East policy, deliberately short on high-flown rhetoric and, in terms of grand design, …
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Bonfire of the experts: The Arab uprisings and the Israeli-Palestinian question
Leave a commentMay 16, 2011 by happyhenry
Tony Klug analyses the current situation: I was at a meeting recently where the head of the Foreign Office’s ‘Near …
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