Kesher Talk

Comparing the Palestinian uprisings: Jonathan Schanzer compares the current Intifadah with the Palestinian uprisings in the 1930s and 1980s and sees "a recurring Palestinian pattern of miscalculation, fratricide, religious radicalism, economic despair, and self-destruction.... This is the third time in seventy years the Palestinians have orchestrated a nationalist uprising, and the third time it has led them to disaster." It is time for them to learn from this pattern. Read his article in the summer edition of the Middle East Quarterly.

Actually, there's lots of good stuff in the MEQ. Alexander A. Weinreb and Avi Weinreb ask if Israel has used indiscriminate force (not unrelated to my TCS look at Palestinian/Israeli casualty figures). Dany Shoham has the first of two parts of an investigation of Syrian weapons of mass destruction. And Matthew A. Levitt offers a score card for fighting the war on terror, and how we can determine we've won.

posted by Howard @ 8/23/2002 03:15:46 PM