MER Article Shehadeh, Occupier's Law Raja Shehadeh, Occupier’s Law: Israel and the West Bank (Washington, DC: Institute for Palestine Studies, 1985). Rex Wingerter • 2 min read
MER Article Ajami, The Vanished Imam Fouad Ajami, The Vanished Imam: Musa al-Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986). As'ad AbuKhalil • 5 min read
MER Article Jordan's Plan for the West Bank Jordan and Israel together have destroyed the post-Lebanon strategy of the Palestinian movement led by Yasser Arafat. King Hussein’s $1.2 billion five-year development plan for the Occupied Territories, unveiled in mid-July, provides the velvet glove to accompany Israel’s iron fist. Kevin Kelly • 6 min read
MER Article Document: "American Reactions Are a Little Primitive" In early November 1986, just as the Iran arms story was breaking, Washington Times editor Arnaud de Borchgrave interviewed French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. On November 7, de Borchgrave published a front-page story based on the interview highlighting Chirac’s suspicion, which the prime minister (Author not identified) • 17 min read
MER Article Low-Intensity Warfare The US Navy calls it “violent peace.” One of its foremost academic boosters says it means “to fight without appearing to fight.” They are talking about low-intensity conflict. This is the term the US government uses to describe a strategy of fighting small, relatively cheap wars. Few US troops are i Jochen Hippler • 16 min read
MER Article Turkey's Armaments Industries Turkish government officials project spending some $15 billion over the next 12 years to bring Turkey’s military forces up to NATO standards. This would make Turkey’s arms industry one of the major growth sectors over the next decade. Military industries now employ over 40,000 people directly. Once Ömer Karasapan • 16 min read
MER Article US Corporate Ownership of Israeli Military Industries US Corporation: AEL Industries, Inc. Israeli Corporation: Elisra Electronic Systems (formerly AEL Israel) Financial Relationship: AEL owns 58 percent of Elisra. Military Products: Electronic warfare systems; telephone switching equipment. In 1984 approximately 50 percent of sales were for export. Aw Sheila Ryan • 3 min read
MER Article US Military Contractors in Israel Over the past two decades, a combination of factors has significantly reoriented the Israeli economy toward military production -- weapons for Israel’s military and for export to juntas, minority regimes and dictators around the world. Israeli officials justify this development of military industri Sheila Ryan • 14 min read
MER Article Arms Industries of the Middle East Forty years ago, arms production in the Middle East was limited to a few small factories producing rifles and ammunition. Today, arms production has become a very big business in the region, with annual output worth more than $4 billion and rising. Of the 23 Third World countries with extensive mili Joe Stork • 12 min read
MER Article Israel's Private Arms Network Arms and military goods have become Israel’s main export item, to the tune of well over $2 billion per year. [1] Israel has exported arms to more than 60 countries and an undetermined number of armed groups worldwide. A peculiar feature of Israel’s arms business is that up to one third of sales are Bishara Bahbah • 8 min read
MER Article Iran's New Grand Strategy The controversy over US-Iranian relations has implications as drastic for the government in Tehran as for that in Washington. The disputed character of the opening to Washington forced Majlis Speaker Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani to go public about the talks in early November. Even Ayatollah Khomeini him Fred Halliday • 5 min read
