%0 Journal Article %J Routledge Taylor& Francis Group %D 2019 %T Diasporas from the Middle East: Displacement, Transnational Identities and Homeland Politics %A Amira Halperin %A Baser, Bahar %X

Migrants and refugees from Middle Eastern countries are scattered around the globe, predominantly in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) Region, Europe and the USA. Between 2005 and 2015, the number of migrants living in the Middle East more than doubled, from about 25 million to around 54 million.11 ‘Middle East’s Migrant Population More than Doubles Since 2005’, Pew Research Center Report (2016), http://www.pewglobal.org/2016/10/18/middle-easts-migrant-population-more-than-doubles-since-2005/.View all notes Some of this growth was due to individuals and families seeking economic opportunities. But the majority of the migration surge, especially after the war in Syria began in 2011, was a consequence of armed conflict and the forced displacement of millions of people from their homes, many of whom have left their countries of birth.22 Ibid.View all notes Furthermore, the estimated number of immigrants to Europe between mid-2010 and mid-2016 was 7 million, not including 1.7 million asylum seekers. Among these European countries, Germany recorded the highest level of immigration, followed by Britain, France, Spain and Italy.33 ‘Migration to Europe in Charts’, BBC News, September 11, 2018, https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44660699.View all notes These migration flows not only reflect the existence of drivers of migration due to conflict in the Middle East, but also reveal the potential formation of new diasporas throughout time and the growing size of the already existing ones in host countries all around the world. 

%B Routledge Taylor& Francis Group %G eng %U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13530194.2019.1569308 %0 Journal Article %J AIJAC %D 2019 %T Young people shake up Indonesia’s election %A Giora Eliraz %X

On April 17, Indonesia will mark a new milestone in the distinctive democratic path it started out upon in 1998, holding a “mega-election” for both the presidency and legislatures on both the national and local levels. More than 190 million Indonesians are eligible to vote.

%B AIJAC %G eng %U https://aijac.org.au/australia-israel-review/young-people-shake-up-indonesias-election/ %0 Journal Article %D 2019 %T " THE INTRACTABLE DISPUTED" %A Raphael Israeli %X

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%G eng %0 Journal Article %D 2018 %T Herfroy-Mischler, A and Barr, A (2018). "Jihadist Visual Communication Strategy: ISIL'sHostage Executions Video Production". %X

Based on a visual, verbal and aural quantitative and qualitative content analysis of the 62 execution videos produced by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during its first year of existence (2014–2015), the aim of this research is to further the understanding of the inherent nature of the narratives spread by ISIL execution videos and to which audience(s) they are targeted. The authors adopt a bottom-up systematic approach of coding based on grounded theory to process visual and aural communication data as well as verbal communication of more than seven hours of ISIL hostage execution videos. In so doing, this research contributes to the understanding of multimodal communication interactions and the role of their discrepancies in framing fundamentalist ideologies. Moreover, the study adds perspective to previous research on Jihadist visual communication and audience studies. The results demonstrate how hostage execution videos discourse relies on ‘framing packages’ linked to values, norms and archetypes to create a recurrent and coherent organizational narrative aimed at segmenting ISIL’s audiences.

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Communication Review journal. %D 2018 %T Palestinian media landscape: Experiences, narratives, and agendas of journalists under restrictions %A Ibrahim Hazboun %A Ifat Maoz %A Menahem Blondheim %X

This study aims to increase our understanding of the dynamics of the Palestinian media and the conditions and circumstances in which they work, including both the conflict with Israel and the internal political strife within Palestinian society. It is based on the use of qualitative research methods and was conducted in two stages. First, we performed a mapping of Palestinian media outlets. Data on these Palestinian media outlets were collected online from the West Bank-based Palestinian Authority’s Ministry of Information website, the Gaza-based Hamas government’s Ministry of Information website, and statements published by Palestinian media outlets on their websites describing their affiliation and ownership. Second, to gain a more in-depth understanding of the dynamics and experience of practicing journalism in a situation of asymmetrical conflict, semistructured in-depth interviews were conducted with 25 professional local Palestinian journalists working for local media outlets in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Through this study we aim to learn more about how groups shape and express their narratives and agendas through the media when restricted by the conditions, pressures, and limitations of asymmetrical conflict.

%B Communication Review journal. %G eng %U https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714421.2018.1557964?fbclid=IwAR0uoJNmYg3C8-0_m5iNdpVJsuDdJNFWH6BhAzGwXBG5hRrUuloG1SqKqEc %0 Book %D 2018 %T ONE CENTURY OF VAIN MISSIONARY WORK AMONG MUSLIMS IN CHINA %A Raphael Israeli %X

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%I Cambridge Scholars Publishing %C London %G eng %0 Book %D 2018 %T "Theodor Herzl" %A Yosef Govrin %A Yoel Sher %G eng %0 Journal Article %J MORESHET Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism %D 2018 %T The Image of the Jew in Vladimir Korolenko’s The History of My Contemporary %A Yosef Govrin %B MORESHET Journal for the Study of the Holocaust and Antisemitism %G eng %0 Book %D 2018 %T The Use of New Media by the Palestinian Diaspora in the United Kingdom %A Amira Halperin %X

This book presents pioneering research on the impact of new media on the Palestinian Diaspora, and is the result of unprecedented access to the Palestinian community in the United Kingdom. It explores issues of politics, conflict resolution, new media and daily life experiences of the dispersed Palestinian people.

The research is linked to the contemporary phenomenon of the large immigration wave from the Middle East and Africa to Europe, and the increasing use in internet and smart phone applications by immigrants.

As the book shows, new technology empowers the Palestinian people, enables their global visibility, and strengthens democratic values in this society. It deals with the impact of new media on the Palestinian Diaspora, from the emergence of satellite television channels and the internet to the development of social networks and smart phone applications.

During the research period, internet and smart phone usage of Palestinians in the UK was higher than the usage in Gaza and the West Bank. In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the use of digital and information technology in Gaza and the West Bank.

The book will primarily appeal to international scholars specializing in media, the Middle East, diaspora and migration, political science, and peace and conflict studies. It will also be of interest to those involved in politics and new media, as well as government decision- makers, and legislators.

%7 First %I Cambridge Scholars Publishing %C NewCastle upon Tyne %P 237 %G eng %0 Book %D 2018 %T Paranoia, Inferiority Complex and Fanaticism %A Raphael Israeli %I Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Co. %G eng %0 Book %D 2018 %T Israeli Discourse and the West Bank Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement %A Elie Friedman %A Dalia Gavriely-Nuri %X

How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized? Specifically, within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how can 50 years of Israeli control over the Occupied Territories become accepted within Israeli society as a normal, possibly even banal phenomenon? Conversely, how can such a situation be estranged from daily reality, denied any relation to who "we" are? This volume explores these questions through the lens of two central discourses that dominate the Israeli debate regarding the future of the Occupied Territories: 1) Occupation Normalization Discourse, which portrays Israeli control of the territories as a "normal" part of life; 2) Occupation Estrangement Discourse, which portrays this situation as distant from Israeli reality. In addressing these discourses, the authors develop a new methodological tool, Dialectic Discourse Analysis, which examines discourse as a process of perpetual positing and synthesis of oppositions through the discursive construction, differentiation and mediation of self and other.Through this approach, the authors illustrate that these discourses are dialectically constituted in opposition to one another, feeding off one another, each enabling the other to exist. This dynamic has resulted in a fixed discourse, preventing any progress towards a synthesis of oppositions.

 

%I Routledge %P 158 %G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T Write down! We are a nation. Musa Kazim al-Husayni, a Political Biography %A Yoni Furas %X

כיצד התעצבה התנועה הלאומית הפלסטינית, כיצד נראתה בראשית דרכה, מה היו הישגיה ומה היו האפשרויות שנדחו והוחמצו? בשאלות אלו עוסקת הביוגרפיה הפוליטית של מוסא כאט'ם באשא אל-חוסיני (1934-1850), מנהיגה המרכזי של התנועה הלאומית הפלסטינית מראשית ימי הכיבוש הבריטי ועד מותו ב-1934. צמיחתו של מנהיג לאומי אנטי אימפריאלי ומאבקו להגדרה עצמית, מסופרים כאן דרך היסטוריה של מפגשים בעידן של שינויים מרחיקי לכת: מפגשיו של איש מנהל בכיר באימפריה העוסמאנית עם אנשי המנהל של האימפריה הבריטית; מפגשיו של מנהיג לאומי פלסטיני עם מנהיגי התנועה הציונית המתרחבת ומתבססת; ומפגשיו עם תומכיו ומתנגדיו בקהילה הפלסטינית המשתנה במהירות.

%I Moshe Dayan Center %P 204 %G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T Africa and Israel - A Unique Case in Israeli Forign Relations %A Arye Oded %X

This meticulously researched new book from author Arye Oded analyzes Israel's complex relationship with African countries from the time period of the 1950s to the present day. There are three broad phases. The first, from the 1950s-the 'honeymoon' period-began as African countries started to gain independence and Israel was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with them. This included offering assistance in various fields, especially in new agricultural technology and water management to ensure food security and reduce the poverty and hunger suffered by many African countries. In her activities in Africa, Israel emphasized the importance of training manpower in different fields. By 2015, more than 20,000 African students had taken part in courses in Israel. The second period-disengagement-began in October 1973 during the Yom Kippur War, when almost all sub-Saharan Africa broke off relations with Israel out of solidarity with Egypt, one of the founders of the Organization of African Unity (OAU). The third period-renewal-began in 1982 when many African countries decided to benefit again from Israel's innovative abilities in many areas and, in this way, to enjoy assistance from both Israel and Arab countries. Today Israel has diplomatic relations with 41 African countries, and the continent forms a key part of Israeli security, economic, and diplomatic strategy. The epilogue describes Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's June 2016 visit to five East African countries, his plan to visit West Africa, and the main reasons for these visits. [Subject: Israeli Studies, African Studies, International Relations, International Trade, International Development, Israel & Africa, Politics]

%G eng %0 Journal Article %D 2017 %T Anti-Semitism and Philo-Semitism: The Image of the Jew in Vladimir Korolenko Book "The History of My Contemporary" %A Yossef Govrin %G eng %0 Web Page %D 2017 %T The pendulum swings back in Jakarta %A Giora Eliraz %X

The mass demonstrations of the past year are gone,
giving the lndonesian Government some room to
manouevre.

%B Melbourne-based Australia Israel Review (AIJAC) %G eng %U http://www.aijac.org.au/news/article/the-pendulum-swings-back-in-jakarta %0 Journal Article %J British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies %D 2017 %T The origins of sectarianism in Egypt and the Fertile Crescent %A Yusri Hazran %X

This paper differs from previous studies in arguing that sectarianism
has overwhelmingly been created consensually by/or as a result of
the elites’ behavioral patterns. Religious or communal pluralism does
not categorically lead to political sectarianism; The development of
pluralism into political sectarianism can thus be adduced as dependent
upon other factors—first and foremost the behavioural patterns of the
elite. While the imperial legacy, theological controversies, and socioeconomic
gaps feed political sectarianism, in and of themselves they
are insufficient to cause it. A survey of the history of Egypt and the
other countries in the Fertile Crescent reveals that the development
of political sectarianism or sectarian violence has been organically
linked to elites' political behaviors and interests. sectarianism takes
the form of the instrumental exploitation of a religious or communal
identity or framework in order to enable political organization, the
gaining of political legitimacy, the promotion of political change,
or the preservation of the control held by interest groups. While in
the eyes of many critics, sectarianism forms a striking example of the
elites' intrinsic weakness, sectarianism is first and foremost a product
of the elites’ quest for power.

%B British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies %G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T The Politics of Arabic in Israel: A Sociolinguistic Analysis %A Camelia Suleiman %X

 

Explores the contradictory position of Arabic being both the official language and marginalized in Israel

Arabic became a minority language overnight in Israel in 1948, as a result of the Palestinian exodus from their land that year. Although it remains an official language, along with Hebrew, Israel has made continued attempts to marginalize Arabic on the one hand and securitize it on the other. Camelia Suleiman delves into these tensions and contradictions, exploring how language policy and language choice both reflect and challenge political identities of Arabs and Israelis. She explores the historic context of Arabic in Israel, the attempts at minoritising, Orientalising and securitising the language, the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Arabic in Israel, the effect of globalization, modernization and citizenship status on the status of Arabic, Hebrew as a language choice of (semi) autobiographic production of three Israeli authors who are native speakers of Arabic, and lastly, a comparison with the status of Arabic in both Jordan and Palestine (West Bank and Gaza Strip) where Arabic is the official language

 

%I Edinburgh University Press %G eng %0 Web Page %D 2017 %T Jakarta’s Political Turmoil: Post-storm Thoughts on the Moderate Muslim Mainstream %A Giora Eliraz %X

Until recently, Jakarta, the hub of Indonesian politics, was caught in the eye of a storm marked by two recent events. The first involved Jakarta’s ethnic Chinese Christian Governor Basuki Tjahaja “Ahok” Purnama, who was charged in November 2016 and later convicted of a criminal act of blasphemy against Islam. There followed three massive protests — organized by a coalition of hardline Islamic groups. and calling for the governor’s prosecution — that paralyzed the city center and threatened to drive a wedge between the country’s Muslim majority and its three million ethnic Chinese citizens. The second event was Ahok’s crushing defeat in a bid for reelection in April following a divisive campaign that gave hardliners the national stage, while those moderate Islamic organizations with far larger followings appearing, according to some commentators, as having essentially remained on the sidelines.

%G eng %U http://www.mei.edu/content/map/jakarta-s-political-turmoil-post-storm-thoughts-moderate-muslim-mainstream %0 Web Page %D 2017 %T האם הדמוקרטיה המוסלמית הגדולה בעולם משנה את פניה? %A Giora Eliraz %X

אינדונזיה, הדמוקרטיה המוסלמית הצעירה והגדולה ביותר בעולם, עדיין מושתתת על שילוב ייחודי של פלורליזם דתי ותרבותי, אולם כוחות אסלאמיסטים קיצונים מתחזקים בבירה ג'קרטה. האם יתעשת הרוב הדומם?

%B The Forum of Regional Thinking %G eng %U http://www.regthink.org/articles/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9D-%D7%94%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%98%D7%99%D7%94-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%92%D7%93%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%95%D7%9C%D7%9D-%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%94-%D7%90 %0 Book %D 2017 %T The Arab Minority in Israel: Open and Hidden Processes %A Raphael Israeli %X

Israeli Arabs constitute some 20% of the general population – a percentage that has remained steady since 1948, despite massive waves of Jewish aliyah. Because the Arab population growth rate is greater than the Jewish one, Israel’s Jewish nature could be endangered once sources of Jewish immigration dry up. Together with Israeli Arab refusal to integrate into Israeli political parties, and their insistence on maintaining separate linguistic and educational systems, this will perpetuate the growing gap between the two populations.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T The Third Wave: Protest and Revolution in the Middle East %A Eli Podeh %A Onn Winkler %X

In December 2010, an unemployed Tunisian youth named Mohammed Bouazizi set himself on fire. This act ignited demonstrations throughout the Arab world, led to the downfall of the regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and sparked civil war in Syria and Yemen. The Arab Spring was the third wave of awakening in the Arab world since the establishment of the Arab territorial states after the fall of the Ottoman Empire. This book is the first in-depth Hebrew examination of the storm of the Arab Spring.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T A Local Habitation and A Name: A Literary and Cultural Reading of the Arabic Geographical names of the Land %A Amer Dahamshy %X

In the late 1950s, as part of a general mass immigration from Arab countries, many Iraqi Jews left or had to leave Iraq for Israel. In their encounter with a new society where Hebrew is the national language, most Iraqi Jewish authors found it impossible to continue writing in Arabic and had to face the literary challenge of switching to another tongue in order to be read. Clashes between origins and new cultures are likely to occur when geographical contexts change. In this regard, and unlike the typical emigration context when people move from east to west, moving from east to east exemplifies the experience of two Jewish authors, Shimon Ballas (b. Baghdad, 1930) and Eli Amir (b. Baghdad, 1937) alike. It is this complex situation that provides the backdrop to this study. Shimon Ballas and Eli Amir employ Arabic place names associated with Baghdad and/or Iraq in different ways in their Hebrew texts. This paper investigates the style of using Arabic place names in four Hebrew novels written by the two authors. The study argues that the place names brought by immigrant authors from their country of origin are not just names, but rather serve as codes and tools to transfer history, culture and traditions through a very minimal use of the mother tongue within literary texts, creating a sort of ‘bilingual’ final product.

 

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Current Sociology %D 2017 %T Looking Backward to the Future: Counter-Memory as Oppositional Knowledge-Production in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict %A Yifat Gutman %X

This article examines a strategy of peace activism that gained visibility in the last decades: memory activism. Memory activists manifest a temporal shift in transnational politics: first the past, then the future. Affiliated with the globally-circulating paradigm of historical justice, memory activist groups assume that a new understanding of the past could lead to a new perception of present problems and project alternative solutions for the future. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and discourse analysis among memory activists of the 1948 war in Israel since 2001, the article examines the activist production of counter-memory during active conflict. Using Coy et al.’s typology of oppositional knowledge-production, the article shows how the largest group of memory activism in Israel produced ‘new’ information on the war, critically assessed the dominant historical narrative, offered an alternative shared narrative, and began to envision practical solutions for Palestinian refugees. However, the analysis raises additional concerns that reach beyond the scope of the typology, primarily regarding the unequal power relations that exist not only between the dominant and activist production of oppositional knowledge, but also among activists.

 

%B Current Sociology %V 65 %P 54-72 %G eng %N 1 %0 Book %D 2017 %T Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine %A Yifat Gutman %X

Set in Israel in the first decade of the twenty-first century and based on long-term fieldwork, this rich ethnographic study offers an innovative analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It explores practices of "memory activism" by three groups of Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Palestinian citizens--Zochrot, Autobiography of a City, and Baladna--showing how they appropriated the global model of truth and reconciliation while utilizing local cultural practices such as tours and testimonies.

These activist efforts gave visibility to a silenced Palestinian history in order to come to terms with the conflict's origins and envision a new resolution for the future. This unique focus on memory as a weapon of the weak reveals a surprising shift in awareness of Palestinian suffering among the Jewish majority of Israeli society in a decade of escalating violence and polarization--albeit not without a backlash.

Contested memories saturate this society. The 1948 war is remembered as both Independence Day by Israelis and al-Nakba ("the catastrophe") by Palestinians. The walking tour and survivor testimonies originally deployed by the state for national Zionist education that marginalized Palestinian citizens are now being appropriated by activists for tours of pre-state Palestinian villages and testimonies by refugees.

 

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Tel Aviv Notes %D 2017 %T "Arab Idol": A Palestinian Victory, At Last %A Ronni Shaked %A Itamar Radai %X

On February 27, 2017, Palestinians in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the diaspora, as well as the Palestinian citizens of the State of Israel, sat captivated by the broadcast of the finale of the fourth season of the reality television show, "Arab Idol." Held in Beirut, the final round of the Arab Idol competition featured two Palestinian contestants, Yacoub Shahin of Bethlehem in the Palestinian Authority and Ameer Dandan from the Galilee town of Majd al-Krum in Israel, along with a third finalist from Yemen.

%B Tel Aviv Notes %V 11 %G eng %0 Journal Article %J International Journal of Communication %D 2017 %T Exploring Message Targeting at Home and Abroad: The Role of Political and Media Considerations in the Rhetorical Dynamics of Conflict Resolution %A Ellie Friedman %A Zohar Kampf %A Balmas, Meital %X

Targeting messages on sensitive, conflict-related issues while mediating between disparate audience expectations presents a significant risk to the image and interests of political actors. This study provides a basis for understanding the factors that impact a politician’s choice between using message consistencies or gaps and discusses their consequences for conflict resolution processes. Based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of 644 messages presented by Israeli officials with respect to the Israeli–Arab conflict and Israeli–Palestinian conflict over three different periods (1967‒73; 1993‒2000; 2009‒12), the study points to foreign relations defined by the existence of negotiations rather than mediatization processes as the significant factor that impacts the rhetorical dynamics of conflict resolution negotiations, due to the amplified pressures of a two-level game during periods of rapprochement.

%B International Journal of Communication %V 11 %P 1597-1617 %G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T Israel in the Making: Stickers, Stitches, and other Other Critical Practices %A Hagar Salamon %X

The brilliant kaleidoscope of everyday creativity in Israel is thrown into relief in this study, which teases out the abiding national tensions and contradictions at work in the expressive acts of ordinary people. Hagar Salamon examines creativity in Israel’s public sphere through the lively discourse of bumper stickers, which have become a potent medium for identity and commentary on national and religious issues. Exploring the more private expressive sphere of women’s embroidery, she profiles a group of Jerusalem women who meet regularly and create "folk embroidery.” Salamon also considers the significance of folk expressions at the intersections of the public and private that rework change and embrace transformation. Far ranging and insightful, Israel in the Making captures the complex creative essence of a nation state and vividly demonstrates how its citizens go about defining themselves, others, and their country every day.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2017 %T

Golda Meir: A Political Biography

%A Meron Medzini %X

For five decades Golda Meir was at the center of the political arena in Israel and left her mark on the development of the Yishuv and the state. She was a unique woman, great leader, with a magnetic personality, a highly complex individual. She held some of the most important positions that her party and the State could bestow. She fulfilled most of them with talent and dignity. She failed in the top job - that of Prime Minister. This biography traces her origins, her American roots, her immediate family, her failed marriage, her rise in the party, the trade union movement, her massive and enduring achievements as Secretary of Labor and Housing, her ten year stint as foreign minister and finally the reasons that led to her failure as prime minister. She was a very good tactician, far less a strategist. She was a major builder of modern Israel whose influence on that country, on Israel-American relations and on Jewish history was evident primarily from 1969 to 1974. The author who served as spokesman for Golda Meir in 1973-1974 weaves a gripping story of one of the builders and leaders of the State of Israel.

%G eng %0 Magazine Article %D 2017 %T Saudi Arabia the Next Stop on China's Maritime Silk Road

%A Micha’el Tanchum %X

Like a weathervane, the recent visit to China by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman points to changing strategic directions in the Middle East–Asia security architecture. The significance of the Saudi monarch’s meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top officials goes well beyond the hefty US$65 billion in economic and trade deals signed between Riyadh and Beijing. The visit confirmed the nascent strategic partnership developing between China and Saudi Arabia as Beijing seeks to promote stability on its 21st century Maritime Silk Road (MSR).
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%G eng %U http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2017/03/22/saudi-arabia-the-next-stop-on-chinas-maritime-silk-road/ %0 Journal Article %J Aijac %D 2017 %T Ahok, Islamism and Indonesian Democracy %A Giora Eliraz %X

The results of Jakarta's first round of gubernatorial elections might be confusing to many casual observers of Indonesian politics - the Christian and ethnically Chinese governor, Bauska Tjahaja Purnama, known as Ahok, came first. This happened even though Ahok has been, during recent months, in the eye of a storm that saw him facing a high-profile criminal trial - accused of breaking blasphemy laws by insulting the Quran, in a country dominated by a Muslim majority. The serial massive protests in Jakarta against Ahok, full of hatred and marked by religious and ethnic overtones that preceded his trial, could create an impression that zealous Islamists control the public sphere and significantly threaten Indonesia's democracy and the national maxim of "unity in diversity". In the face of this public storm, the outside observer could be forgiven for believing that Ahok's fate was sealed... (press  Publisher Version to continue reading)

%B Aijac %G eng %U http://www.aijac.org.au/news/article/ahok-islamism-and-indonesian-democracy %0 Journal Article %J Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs %D 2016 %T Israeli-Austrian Relations: A Personal Retrospective %A Yosef Govrin %X

Israel's relations with Austria have experienced many vicissitudes in the sixty years that have elapsed since the two countries inaugurated formal ties. Austria recognized the State of Israel on March 5, 1949, nearly ten months after the Jewish State declared independence. In 1950, both countries established mutual representations on a consular level, Israel in Vienna and Austria in Tel Aviv. In 1956, they established mutual diplomatic relations on the level of legations, and in 1959 the legations were raised to the rank of embassies. (Read more in the text attached)

%B Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs %V 10 %P 487-494 %G eng %U http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23739770.2016.1277627 %N 3 %0 Book %D 2016 %T
Freedom In The Arab World: Concepts and Ideologies in Arabic Thought in the Nineteenth Century
%A Wael Abu-’Uksa %X

This book examines the development of the concept of freedom (hurriyya) in nineteenth-century Arab political thought, its ideological offshoots, their modes, and their substance as they developed the dynamics of the Arabic language. The author traces the transition of the idea of freedom from a term used in a predominantly non-political way, to its popularity and near ubiquity at the dawn of the 20th century. He also analyses the importance of associated
concepts such as “liberalism”, “socialism”, “progress,” “rationalism,” “secularism,” and “citizenship.”

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Reflections on my Mission as Israel's Ambassador %A Yosef Govrin %X

"Reflections on my Mission as Israel's Ambassador to Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia August 1993-December 1995"
These Reflections are based on the author's activities in developing relations with Austria, Slovenia and Slovakia, in substance and in quantity. his discussions with the heads of these states and their discussions with their Israeli counterparts, surveying their internal and external policies, describing the local Jewish communities and the activities to foster relations with them and to strengthen their national status. These reflections have a documentary nature and constitute a unique and important source for research regarding the history of Israel's relations with these from the beginning of the 1990.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Juifs et Musulmans en Palestine et en Israel: Des Origins a Nos Jours %A Amnon Cohen %X

The book describes the relationship between Jews and Arabs in Israel from the beginning of Islam to the present day. Departing from the accepted picture of hostile relations and mutual hostility over the past century, the book celebrates the hundreds of years preceding the British Mandate. Analysis of thousands of documents from the archives of the Muslim court in Jerusalem during the 400 years of Turkish-Ottoman rule makes it clear that there was a diverse and multidisciplinary system of coexistence, tolerance and partnership in all areas of life between the Jews of Palestine and their Arab neighbors.

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Middle Eastern Studies %D 2016 %T Al-Wefaq and the February 14 uprising: Islam, nationalism and democracy– the Shici-Bahraini discourse %A Elisheva Machlis %X

Al-Wefaq's complex nature led to ambiguity over the relationship between religion and politics and over the balance between Islamic ecumenism and sectarianism. While the Shici uprising presented a national and democratic agenda, questions remain over the party's full commitment to democracy and its loyalty to the national framework in the current regional turmoil with the empowerment of Shicis and disintegration of nation-states. There could be a discrepancy between the declared aims of an oppositional movement and its actions once it assumes power. The problematic legacy of minority–majority relations in Bahrain, the country's political culture and the difficult example of post-2003 Iraq, are further barriers to advancing full democracy. If the Shici majority gains power the party may become less democratic and more sectarian. Yet, it will also have much to lose given Bahrain's strategic alliance with the US and its position as a financial services hub in the region.

%B Middle Eastern Studies %V 52 %P 978-995 %G eng %N 6 %0 Book %D 2016 %T Christianophobia: The Persecution of Christians under Islam %A Raphael Israeli %X

In the present upheaval in the Islamic world, as chaos, war, and vengeance are overtaking order, security, and civil rights, Muslim radicals have been venting their frustrations among their minorities, most of whom are Christian: from ancient Chaldeans in Iraq to Orthodox denominations in Turkey; from Catholics in Indonesia and Malaysia to remote and isolated Christian communities in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Related to this vast and escalating phenomenon has been the violent activity of some within the Muslim minorities in the West, who have migrated there in the past few decades and now seek revenge against their former colonial masters. This is taking place in the context of fast-increasing numbers of Muslims in the West, the result both of high birthrates and of escalating legal and illegal immigration from Islamic lands.

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Energy Policy %D 2016 %T The Geopolitics of Cross-border Electricity Grids: The Israeli-Arab Case %A Lior Herman %A Fischhendler, I %A Anderman, J %X

Countries often attempt to establish regional electricity grids. However, whereas research on natural resources frequently seeks to understand policy outcome through a geopolitical prism, when it comes to electricity studies the prism is always economic or technical. Hence, this study is a first attempt to identify the geopolitical dimension of cross-border electricity grids. The study argues that success in establishing electricity grids requires identifying how the geopolitical dimension interplays with the physical dimension. To examine the role of these geopolitical bottlenecks, the study examines negotiation protocols, spanning over 15 years, on establishing ten grid connections between Israel and its Arab neighbors. It finds that electricity geopolitics has been used both as a platform for deeper international cooperation and as a stick against neighboring states. When policies are driven by a peace dividend, proposals for grid connection appear to evolve and overcome the dependency and the security-economy bottlenecks. When relations deteriorate, proposals for grid connections appear to undergo reconsideration and to be held hostage by higher politics. If, when and how electricity grids materialize is a function of the nature of the electricity network as a twofold package and of the ability of the planning process to accommodate geopolitical uncertainty.

 

%B Energy Policy %V 98 %P 533-543 %G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Homeland: Zionism as Housing Regime, 1860-2011 %A Yael Allweil %X

On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal, Realty Today reported Israel is facing a housing crisis with [the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011 .

As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book, housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of homeland to highlight how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day.

Following the Introduction, Part I, Historiographies of Land Reform and Nationalism, discusses the formation of nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman land code of 1858. Part II, Housing as Proto-Nationalism focuses on housing as the means to claim rights over the homeland. Part III, Housing and Nation-Building in the Age of State Sovereignty, explores the effects of statehood on national housing across several strata of Israeli society. The Afterword discusses housing as the quintessential object of agonistic conflict in Israel-Palestine, around which the Israeli polity is formed and reformed.

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Middle East Critique %D 2016 %T The Islamic Republic: A Bastion of Stability in the Region? %A Elisheva Machlis %X

The Islamic republic provides an important model to assess the stability of hybrid regimes. This case demonstrates the durability of competitive authoritarianism if the system allows flexibility, adjustments and maneuvering between multiple forces, creating dynamism and even evolutionary change. Hybrid regimes are naturally vulnerable, but by combining the strengths of different types of authoritarianism, they can persist over years. Stabilization requires meticulous balancing between legitimization, cooption, coercion, informal networks and economic growth. While the Islamic Republic appears to be steady regardless of its particular president, Hassan Rouhani further is stabilizing the system due to his broad support-base, his leadership style, his economic policy and his national agenda. With a growing debate over the republican-revolutionary axis, Iranian nationalism buttresses state legitimacy but also may re-shape its theocratic essence. Rouhani probably will take small steps to provide limited freedoms, while maintaining equilibrium between the country’s diverse political forces.

%B Middle East Critique %V 25 %P 341-363 %G eng %N 4 %0 Book %D 2016 %T The Male Body in Jewish Lithuanian Ultra-Orthodoxy %A Yakir Englander %X

How does the Ultra-Orthodox literature describe the male body? What does the body represent? What is the ideal male body?

This book is a philosophical-theological journey about the different images of the male body in the Ultra-Orthodox literature after the holocaust.  The choice in the body as the center of the research comes from the fact that the body is the axis by which this community tries to understand its meaning and its role in life.

In the first part of the book, the writer explains the “problem of the body” and the different ways the Ultra-Orthodox theology deals with it. These different and even contradictory voices can teach the reader about the shifting of ideas inside the Ultra-Orthodox thought in the last decades. The second part of the book focuses on the image of the ideal body and describes how the rabbis train their bodies to reach ultimate form. 

%G eng %0 Journal Article %J Law and Society Review %D 2016 %T Memory Laws: An Escalation in Minority Exclusion or a Testimony to the Limits of State Power? %A Yifat Gutman %X

The article addresses the tension between nation-state memory and the law through “memory laws.” In contrast to laws that ban genocide denial or a positive perception of a violent past, I focus on laws that ban a negative perception of a violent past. As I will show, these laws were utilized for a non-democratic purpose in the last decade or more: They were proposed in order to limit public debate on the national past by banning oppositional or minority views, in contrast to the principles of free speech and deliberative democracy. Their legislation in such cases also stands in opposition to truth-telling efforts in the international arena. I compare two cases of memory legislation, in contemporary Russia and Israel, and evaluate their different impacts on democratic public debates in practice. A third case of “failed legislation” in France compliments the analysis by demonstrating not only the capacity but also the limitation of state power to silence or control public debate using the law. Although national laws often reflect majority culture and memory, I propose that memory laws in Russia, Israel, and France present an escalating degree of minority exclusion—from omission to active banning.

%B Law and Society Review %V 50 %P 575-607 %G eng %N 3 %0 Book %D 2016 %T Old Historians, New Historians, No Historians %A Raphael Israeli %X

This polemical volume tackles the thorny and controversial issue of the vastly different narratives told (or manufactured) by the two parties of the conflict in the Middle East (the Arabs and Israel), focusing on 1948, where it all started. While all sides in this debate have vested interests, this author included, an attempt has been made here to reflect the factual truth on the events, although their interpretation will always remain controversial. Although the book argues principally with Benny Morris, the founder and leader of the so-called New Historians, it encompasses a wide array of controversial topics, like the evaluation of the 1948-49 War, the morality of the war (or the necessity to wage it as it was), and its main reverberations, such as the continuing conflict after seven decades, the aggravation of the Palestinian minority in Israel, and the essence of what history means. Israeli argues that the current debate between the so-called Old Historians and the New Historians--itself healthy if and when it is kept to the point and not allowed to degrade into personal libel and recriminations--is not really as unbridgeable as is often claimed. Both sides have erred at points and both sides have some important and complementary light to shed on the contentious events surrounding the birth of Israel.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T

French colonial Dakar: The morphogenesis of an African regional capital

%A Liora Bigon %X

This book deals with the planning culture and architectural endeavors that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. As part of a burgeoning field of the study of the extra-European planning history of Europe, this book is one of the pioneers in attesting to the connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa, together with an analysis of the variety of indigenous, bottom-up, spatial responses.    

 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T

Israel and Its Arab Minority, 1948–2008: Dialogue, Protest, Violence

%A Gadi Hitman %X

Using a balanced approach, this study provides a comprehensive picture of the Arab sector over six decades. It examines what, when, and why the Arab minority in Israel chooses to either negotiate with the government or turn to protest or violence in order to change the status quo. This book offers a unique framework for further scholarly writings and enables policy makers, in any given situation, to identify the best policy to implement towards national minorities in order to reduce the possibility of tensions, violence, and escalation. These policies should not just involve making decisions to decrease a minority’s grievances, but should also aim to understand what type of leadership is guiding the minority in order to lower the chance of clashes between the parties.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Pisces Out of Morocco and the Saga of the Clandestine Jewish Exodus %A Raphael Israeli %X

This is the saga of the underground Jewish emigration from Morocco, which sent hundreds of thousands of Moroccan Jews who had been persecuted under Islam for centuries, onto illegal ships.

The Jews faced stormy seas and an uncertain future in their valiant attempts to escape from the authorities forbidding their emigration, risking their lives for the dream of reaching the hopeful shores of nascent Israel.

In one of those attempts, the ship "Pisces" sank off the coast of Morocco, taking with it 45 souls, including entire families who were never to reach their destination.

Since this book is partly autobiographical, much of the story focuses on the author and his family. The rest is populated by the many brave and unidentified Jews who ventured into the unknown, taking enormous risks to secretly leave Morocco.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Popular Contention, Regime, and Transition: The Arab Revolts in Comparative Global Perspective %E Eitan Alimi %E Avraham Sela %E Mario Sznajder %X

Why is it that in spite undeniable similarities and time coincidence among Middle Eastern and North African countries we observed so different trajectories and outcomes of popular contention? And, why is it that despite unquestionable differences between MENA and non-MENA revolts we observed striking similarities in the actual dynamics of popular contention? Moving beyond a sole focus on root-causes and structural conditions on the one hand, and avoiding a teleological-like normative assessment of the outcomes and consequences of cycles of popular contention on the other, to focusing on dynamics of contentious politics, the book offers a broad comparative framework that facilitates the identification of theoretically meaningful similarities and dissimilarities both across the MENA countries and between MENA and non-MENA countries. These similarities and dissimilarities stem from the intricate, contingent, and indeterminate interplay among popular contention, regime, and transition, an interplay that takes on a hyper-pace during revolutionary cycles. Equally attentive to both similarities and differences and based on an unprecedented diverse set of cases from across the globe as well as a variety of comparative designs, Popular contention, Regime, and Transition offers revealing answers to two complementing questions: What can cycles of contention in other parts of the world tell us about revolts in the Arab world? And, what can the cycles of contention in the Arab world tell us about contentious politics more generally?

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T

Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories

%A Liora Bigon %X

This volume examines the discursive relations between indigenous, colonial and post-colonial legacies of place naming in Africa in terms of the production of urban space and place. It is conducted by tracing and analyzing place-naming processes, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa during colonial times (British, French, Belgian, Portuguese), with a considerable attention to both the pre-colonial and post-colonial situations.

By combining in-depth area studies research – some of the contributions are of ethnographic quality – with colonial history, planning history and geography, the authors intend to show that culture matters in research on place names. 

This volume goes beyond the recent understanding obtained in critical studies of nomenclature, normally based on lists of official names, that place naming reflects the power of political regimes, nationalism, and ideology.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Rewriting History in Manga: Stories for the Nation %E Nissim Otmazin %E Rebecca Suter %X

Based on a workshop organized by the editors at the University of Sydney, this book looks at the way manga (comic publications) reproduces alternative visions of Japanese history and have the potential to shape national historical memory. Rather than focusing on highly formulaic symbols of collective memory on the national level such as museums, monuments, state rituals and ceremonies, or history textbooks, as the majority of historical literature has done, our book looks at the way in which the past is being integrated and insinuated into the surrounding through the everyday production and consumption of manga. The individual chapters showcase specific instances of re-imagining, rewriting, and consuming history in manga format, from the late nineteenth century to the present, to address wider questions related to nationalism, modernity, politics, gender equality, and economic and social transformations.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T ​​​​​​Representations of Israeli-Jewish—Israeli-Palestinian Memory and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War %A Avraham Sela %A Alon Kadish %X

The Palestine War of 1948 remains a defining event in the contemporary history of the Middle East, especially for Israelis and the Palestinians. The last three decades witnessed a major surge in the production by both parties of historical research and memory of the 1948 War along with the shifting focus of the Arab-Israeli conflict from one between Israel and its Arab neighboring states to its original inter-communal Arab-Jewish dispute within historic Palestine. This edited volume comprises chapters contributed by scholars of various expertise and disciplines (history, literature, cinematgology; museology, urban geography, International Relations, and art), all related to Israeli and Palestinian memory and historical narratives of the 1948 war. The volume demonstrates the interrelation between history, memory and politics in general, and fills a gap in the literature on how Israelis and Palestinians have been reproducing the memory of 1948 war the implications of which keep nourishing the conflict and stumbling its solution.   

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T A Study on Anaphora in Arabic Language %A Lu Yingbo %X

Anaphora is an important approach for article connection and extension, playing an indispensable role in article construction, which also applies to Arabic. This thesis, taking “anaphora in Arabic” as its research target, discusses its functions contained in text and how it is constructed.

Firstly, the book describes anaphora used in Arabic, and divide it into four types including noun anaphora, deictic anaphora, pronominal anaphora and morpheme anaphora based on expression forms of anaphora, and holds the opinion that the essential difference identifying a specific anaphora shall relate to accessibility of the respective concept. Therefore in this thesis, accessibility of concepts contained in a text is utilized as an analysis tool for analysis and conclusion of textual characteristics while different forms of anaphora appear.

It is the main idea that anaphora owns functions of textual extension and textual cohesion in text construction in Arabic. The function of textual extension, from aspect of T-R structure, refers to promotion of textual development via continuing or changing the theme of the previous minor sentence; from aspect of information structure, it refers to promotion of plot evolution via matching and combination of different new/old information. The function of textual cohesion is mainly realized by three ways including reference cohesion, conjunction cohesion and relevance cohesion. Based on what is mentioned above, the book herein discusses functional characteristics and selection principles of different anaphora forms in a text.

In this thesis, the book also pays attention to psychological process of the expressers during textual construction, and regard anaphora as a selection process, which is not only under influence of textual factors but also restricted by rhetoric ones. Expressers, during utilization process of anaphora applied to the antecedents and based on certain pragmatic intention, will select or establish corresponding forms and realize preset pragmatic purpose and rhetorical effect by way of actual meaning of the anaphora.

Lastly, with utilization of comparative study, the book has summarized the features of noun anaphora, deictic anaphora and pronominal anaphora in Arabic and Chinese texts to analyze the reasons leading to non-correspondence of the same anaphora form contained in an original text and in its translated one during translation between Chinese and Arabic, the purpose and exploration of which are oriented to the practical Arabic teaching and translation process.

 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun – Japan and the Jews during the Holocaust Era %A Meron Medzini %X

Although a member of the Axis Alliance, Japan's leaders informed Nazi Germany that its attitude towards the Jews was very different from that of the Nazi regime. Some 40,000 Jews found themselves under Japanese occupation in World War II, virtually all of them survived unlike their brethren in Europe. The book traces the evolution of Japan's policy towards the Jews since the start of the 20th century and explains why Japan ignored repeated German demands to be involved in the "final solution".

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Why I left School: Voices of Palestinian Dropouts in East Jerusalem %A Laila Abed Rabho %X

According to data published in 2012, nearly 40% of Palestinian students in East Jerusalem do not complete 12 years of study. Comparatively, the dropout rate is a mere 3% amongst the overall Jewish population of Jerusalem. Dr. Laila Abed Rabho designed this study to examine the factors that lead to such high dropout rates from the schools in East Jerusalem and possible ways to contend with this phenomenon. In contrast to previous research, Dr. Abed Rabho gives voice to the dropouts themselves. This study includes extensive in-depth interviews that were conducted with 26 student dropouts from East Jerusalem, who agreed to disclose their varied, personal stories, under condition of anonymity. Interviews were conducted with principals, teachers, advisors and senior educators, to examine the causes and possible solutions to the dropout problem. Dr. Abed Rabho's findings show that the causes for student dropout can be divided into five categories: Personal reasons; family reasons; economic/socio cultural reasons; and reasons of political/security.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Jews and Arabs Encountering their Identities: Transformations in Dialogue %A Maya Kahanoff %X

Controlled and intentional intergroup encounters have been a feature of Arab-Jewish relations in Israel for more than four decades. They have a long and well-documented track record and an almost equally-long literature critical of their goals, intentions, and success. The book describes the multidimensional process of intergroup dialogue between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, revealing the profound inner turmoil it creates beneath the surface and its powerful potential to transform mutually negating relations. Kahanoff takes us beyond the usual level of the intergroup encounter to examine the dynamics that take place between and within each group and then, most boldly, within the consciousness of individual participants. She argues for the unsettling and dangerous nature of dialogue as crafting a space where individuals encounter not only the image or narrative of the other but also the image or narrative of the self. The author argues that dialogue contains the potential to destabilize a person's sense of identity and that the seeming failure of overt dialogue may signal the beginning of a process of inner dialogue and transformation.

%I Lexington Books %G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T The Internationalization of ISIS: The Muslim State in Iraq and Syria

%A Raphael Israeli %X

An Islamic terrorist movement, ISIS (also dubbed IS or ISIL), has taken advantage of the chaotic "Arab Spring” in Syria and Iraq to declare an Islamic Caliphate wherever it has been able to rise to power. This movement is continuously attempting to extend the territory of its rule. The Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and the Libyan post-Qaddafi desert country have sworn allegiance to the Caliphate and every town that is captured by the fighting forces of ISIS is forced to submit to strict Islamic law.

The Caliphate movement is constantly increasing its power and influence. It is not only sustained by the thousands of local recruits, but it is reinforced by many thousands of Muslim minority youth dwelling abroad. These youths are charmed by the "purity” of its ideals and goals, its brutal and coercive ways, and its defiance of the West.

The United States, some "moderate” Arab allies in the Gulf, and some other international players, including Russia, have launched attacks against the ISIS forces to prevent them from further destroying the ancient cultures of Mosul and Palmyra, dedicated by UNESCO as part of the world heritage. Beyond that there does not seem to be any force capable of arresting their advance or checking their universal appeal to Muslims around the world. Israeli’s pessimistic conclusion is that ISIS may be contending for power in the Middle East for many years to come, while threatening to become a center of terrorist activity against the West.
%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Israel Studies Publication: Representations of Israeli-Jewish - Israeli-Palestinian Memory and Historical Narratives of the 1948 War %A Avraham Sela %A Alon Kadish %X

This special issue consists of a collection of studies of Israeli representations, both Jewish and Palestinian, of memory and historical narratives of the 1948 War. The studies map and explain some Israeli-Jewish and Israeli-Palestinian perspectives of the 1948 War as represented in literature, historical museums, art, visual media, and landscape, as well as in competing official and societal narratives. They are examined especially against the backdrop of the Oslo process, which had strongly brought into relief tensions within and between both sides of the national divide concerning identity and legitimacy, justice, and righteousness of "self” and "other”.

 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Years of Upheaval: Axial Changes in Islam Since 1989 %A Raphael Israeli %X

Years of Upheaval discusses "Axial periods" in history; years that witnessed such fundamental reversals in history as to make the world turn upside down and inaugurate a new era. Raphael Israeli sees the post 1989 period as such a period in Islam. 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T To Live in Two Worlds: The Pains of Displacement %A Nissim Rejwan %X

Nissim Rejwan's To Live in Two Worlds: The Pains of Displacement is a moving narrative of the practical spiritual affinity of one who loved Iraq's Jewish heritage from its origin in the seventh century BCE through the arrival of Islam in the seventh century CE and his departure from Baghdad to Israel in 1951. He loved his Muslim fellow citizens in Iraq. And they loved him. Rejwan's writings in this book reflect a profound sense of loss. The book includes segments of The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland which he dedicated to Elie Kedourie, his co-religionist and literary mentor. But he also included in the dedication three Muslim fellow writers whose lives like his swirled around the activities of Bagdad's Al-Rabita Bookshop: Najib al-Mani, Adnan Raouf, and Buland el-Haidari. The affinities of these men were not consciously spiritual. They came naturally and unselfconsciously in their Abrahamic relationship.

 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2016 %T Self-Determination in the Early 21st Century %A Uriel Abulof %A Karl Cordell (eds.) %X

In a world in which change is constant, the principle of self-determination is important. Through (collective) acts of self-determination, nations exercise the right to govern themselves. At present the nation-state system faces several challenges. In Western Europe, sub-state nationalism is on the rise. In the Middle East, the state system bequeathed by former colonial powers faces increasing threats from pan-Islamist movements. Overall, the established order faces unprecedented uncertainties. The scholars who have contributed to this volume assess the merits, limitations and trajectories of self-determination in the twenty-first century, pointing to the paradoxes and anomalies that are encompassed by what at first sight is a simple and seductive concept.

%I Routledge %G eng %0 Book %D 2015 %T Chances for Peace - Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict %A Elie Podeh %X

Drawing on a newly developed theoretical definition of "missed opportunity", Chances for Peace uses extensive sources in English, Hebrew and Arabic to systematically measure the potentiality levels of opportunity across some ninety years of attempted negotiations in Arab-Israeli conflict. With enlightening revelations that defy conventional wisdom, this study provides a balanced account of the most significant attempts of forge peace, initiated by the world's superpowers, the Arabs (Including the Palestinians), and Israel.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2015 %T Towards a Bi-National Homeland For Israelis and Palestinians %A As'ad Ghanem %A Dan Bavly %X

The thrust of this book, is a proposal that calls for the establishment of an equitable Democratic State, in which all the inhabitants, Jews and Palestinians alike, living on the West of the River Jordan have equal human and civil rights as citizens of this country. In emphasizing the thoughts on how to proceed in establishing such a Democracy are Professor Asad Gh'anem a Palestinian citizen of Israel, and Dan Bavly and an Israeli Jew. In the impetus of the book, they separately describe how from their very different backgrounds, they concluded that the One State Democracy was the preferred structure for both people to live in peace and prosperity and advise how this might be done. In doing so, they share with their readers the highlights of the century old history of the Zionist movement, and those of the Palestinian Nationalism, and how from early in the 20th Century, there were among the leaders those who realized how essential it was that both people adjust to living together in an equitable society. As the two states for two peoples becomes less practical the authors of this book insist that the only doable plan for the future is the 'One State for Two Peoples' formula.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2015 %T Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism %A Uriel Abulof %X

Living on the Edge: The Existential Uncertainty of Zionism probes Jewish existential uncertainty in the age of Zionism. It demonstrates that, despite its attempt to quell the perils of Jewish life, the Zionist movement has been immersed in existential uncertainty. It carefully examines the manifold "existential threats” as these were framed by Zionist elite and public alike, showing that while the people always saw before them the gaping abyss, its nature and depth constantly changes. Living on the Edge further detects the Zionist coping strategies, the "existential threads,” underscoring the role of morality. Zionists, living on the edge, have attempted to weave a security net, based not only on power, but also on moral justification—lending both meaning and cause to their identity and polity.

%7 2015 %I Haifa University and Yedioth Books %G eng %0 Book %D 2015 %T The Mortality and Morality of Nations %A Uriel Abulof %X

Standing at the edge of life's abyss, we seek meaningful order. We commonly find this 'symbolic immortality' in religion, civilization, state and nation. What happens, however, when the nation itself appears mortal? The Mortality and Morality of Nation seeks to answer this question, theoretically and empirically. It argues that mortality makes morality, and right makes might; the nation's sense of a looming abyss informs its quest for a higher moral ground, which, if reached, can bolster its vitality. The book investigates nationalism's promise of moral immortality and its limitations via three case studies: French Canadians, Israeli Jews, and Afrikaners.

%I Cambridge University Press %G eng %0 Book %D 2014 %T The Journey to the Arab Spring: The Ideological Roots of the Middle East Upheaval in Arab Liberal Thought %A Govrin, David %X

This book analyzes the roots of the ideological discourse among distinguished Arab intellectuals and liberals regarding political reforms and democratization processes in the Arab states during the three decades that preceded the 'Arab Spring.' It fills a void in the literature that examines the impact of the New Arab Liberals on the political status quo. The New Arab Liberals have drawn public criticism in demanding a change to the political status quo and the cultural and social molds. They have succeeded in presenting to the Arab public a rational alternative outlook, centered upon a civil, secular, and democratic state, as against an Arab nationalistic or Islamist state vision. Their demands for radical reform have led to aggressive and violent expression since December 2010 in the shake-up known as the 'Arab Spring' that shattered a large part of the Middle East. In order to understand the background, the range, and strength of the demands of the Arab public, it is necessary to investigate the ideological contribution of the Arab Liberals to the public discourse

%I Vallentine Mitchell %P 352 %G eng %0 Book %D 2013 %T
The Death Camps of Croatia: Visions and Revisions, 1941-1945
%A Raphael Israeli %X

Anti-Semitism was widespread and deeply rooted throughout Yugoslavia during World War II. The author traces the circumstances and historical context in which the pro-Nazi Ustasha state, encompassing Croatia and Bosnia, erected the Jadovno and Jasenovac death camps. This volume distills fact and historical record from accusation and grievance without passing judgment, but acknowledges the evil inflicted by all sides upon the Jewish minority in their
midst.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2011 %T Africa and Israel: A Unique Case of Radical Change in Israel's Foreign Relations


%A Arye Oded %X

The relationship between Israel and Africa has been characterized by dramatic shifts, unparalleled in Israel’s relations with other continents. When most African nations gained independence in the 1960s, Israel was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with them and offer wide-ranging assistance, hoping that these friendly relations would help to end its isolation in the region. Israeli embassies operated in 33 countries south of the Sahara. Thus, there was tremendous disappointment when nearly all African countries broke off diplomatic relations during and after the Yom Kippur War. In the 1980’s, Israel began to return to Africa and today has relations with 40 states. Aryeh Oded, who has served as Israeli ambassador to several African countries, analyzes the reasons for these radical changes, basing his work on primary sources and personal experience.

%G eng %0 Book %D 2011 %T Swahili: A textbook for Hebrew Speakers

%A Arye Oded %A Elena Dubnov %X

Swahili is one of the most widespread languages in the world, spoken by some 100 million people in East Africa and neighboring countries. The Organization of African Unity (today African Union) decided that Swahili would become the common language of all of the 53 countries in Africa, and it is taught in many universities. The authors of this book have taught Swahili in the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University, and drew upon their experience to write this first Swahili textbook especially for Hebrew speakers. It is meant to be used as a basic text by students, businesspeople, diplomats and tourists, both in academic settings, or in individual study.

 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2010 %T The History of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency %A Moshe Yegar %X

In this account, diplomatic historian, Moshe Yegar, describes how the Political Department of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem gradually developed relations with both the British Authorities and the Arab leadership in Palestine and neighbouring countries during the 30 year rule of the British Mandate that ended with Israel's independence in 1948.

%G eng %0 Journal Article %D 2009 %T Israeli Relations With Eastern European Countries

%A Yoseph Govrin %X

During the years 1989-1991, Israel renewed its diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Poland and Czechoslovakia —  relations that were severed following the Six Day War. Added to this was Albania, with whom Israel established diplomatic relations for the first time. During  those years Israel’s representatives conducted conversations with officials of East Germany towards the possibility of  establishing diplomatic relations  between them.  .Thiswas not realized due to East Germany’s refusal to recognize its part in paying reparations to Israel for its role in the persecution of Jews during the Nazi regime and as a result of the unification process of Germany that began to show signs of being on the horizon.

(Available in Hebrew and English)

 

%G eng %0 Book %D 2009 %T The Jewish Factor in the Relations between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union 1933-1941 %A Yoseph Govrin %X

Nazi Germany's foreign policy towards the Soviet Union was carried out in accordance ith ideological and political objectives.  These were defined and planned well in advance, with a view to a final confrontation for the domination of Europe.  This policy regarded "Jewish Bolshevism" as the main obstacle to securing victory in the coming confrontation, hence its rise and fall constituted a yard-stick in the formulation of Germany's relationship with the Soviet Union.  Soviet diplomatic activity was aimed at thwarting the German threat to Soviet territorial integrity and its political regime.  By putting ideological principles to one side, betlittling the danger of Nazi anti-Semitic policy for Jews themselves and for free Europe in its entirety, and dismissing Jews from senior positions in the Soviet hierarchy, they hoped to save off the conflict.  From both the German and the Soviet perspective, the Jewish factor was significant.  The purposed of this book is to assess its place and influence upon the mutual relations between the two countries in the years 1933-1941. 

The book was originally published in Hebrew by the Magnes Press of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1986.  This edition includes additional material subsequently published in Russia and newly revealed Soviet archival sources which were unavailable at the time the Hebrew edition went to press.

(Availlible in Hebrew and English)

%G eng %0 Book %D 2002 %T Uganda and Israel: The History of a Complex Relationship %A Arye Oded %X

During the 1960’s, Uganda was the African country in which Israel activities were the widest in diverse areas, including civil and military-security. Thousands of Ugandans participated in continuing education programs in Israel, and hundreds of Israeli experts were dispatched to Uganda.

In March 1972, Uganda’s President Idi Amin expelled all the Israelis from Uganda and severed diplomatic ties with Israel. During the course of the year and afterwards in 1973, almost all other African nations severed diplomatic ties with Israel. This was a difficult and painful blow to descend upon Israel’s foreign policy.

This book examines the development of the relationship between Israel and Ugandaas a case study of the changes that occurred in Israel’s relationship with African countries over the past 40 years however, the Ugandan vicissitudes were the most serious. The author examines the reasons that led to this situation and investigates the lessons that were learned and the lessons that still need to be learned from the bitter experience in Uganda in order to establish our relationship with African countries on a more stable foundation. The book provides an overview on Israel-Africa relations and the combined progression in the texture of the relationship between Africa andIsrael in general.

The author was involved in the development of relations with Uganda from the start and continued in dealing with the Ugandan issue within the framework of his work inIsrael’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, even during the period when diplomat relations were cut off. Oded took part in the efforts that brought about the renewal of relations with this country in 1994. The overview of the developments is based on his personal experiences and on first hand sources.

 

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