Month: March 2011

The Israel-Palestine Conflict- One Hundred Years of War-A Review

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The Israel-Palestine Conflict

One Hundred Years of War by James L. Gelvin New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 209 pp. $75 ($23.99, paper). Reviewed by Martin Sherman Middle East Quarterly Winter 2010 Gelvin, professor of Middle Eastern history at the University of California, Los Angeles, has produced an account of the Israel-Palestine conflict which is appallingly shallow, shoddy, […]

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The price of moderation

Op-ed: Supporters of two-state solution have sown seeds for the de-legitimization of Israel Martin Sherman “…The maximum that any government of Israel will be ready to offer the Palestinians … is much less than the minimum that any Palestinian leader can accept.” Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland, Febuary 2009   The foregoing citation from the former […]

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Diversifying Strategic Reliance: Broadening the Base of Israel’s Sources of Strategic Support

Strategic Assessment, January 1999, Vol. 1, No. 4 Martin Sherman Since the end of the 1967 War, Israel has been almost entirely dependent on the US as its source of strategic support. This is a highly precarious position for any independent nation — particularly one living in such inhospitable geo-political conditions as Israel does. While […]

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