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Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

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Mouin Rabbani

Mouin Rabbani is a senior fellow at the Institute for Palestine Studies and a contributing editor of Middle East Report.

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Palestinian Authority, Israeli Rule

From September 23-26, Palestinian security forces and civilian demonstrators clashed with Israeli soldiers armed with machine guns and helicopters leaving approximately 80 Palestinians and 14 Israeli dead and 1,200 Palestinian and Israeli wounded. The pitched battles, which began in East Jerusalem t

Mouin Rabbani • 14 min read

Makiya, Cruelty and Silence

Kanan Makiya, Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising and the Arab World (W. W. Norton, 1993). The absence of basic human rights and democratic freedoms in the Arab world for most of the post-colonial era, and the failure of the region’s inhabitants to successfully contest this deficit, has app

Mouin Rabbani • 12 min read

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Korn, Stalemate

David A. Korn, Stalemate: The War of Attrition and Great Power Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1967-1970 (Westview, 1992). In a world conditioned to perceive the rhythm of the Arab-Israeli conflict from the vantage point of downtown Tel Aviv, the Egyptian-Israeli war of attrition of 1969-1970 along t

Mouin Rabbani • 2 min read

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Israel and the Palestinians, 1948-1988

Land In 1948 only 8 percent of Palestine was owned by Jewish individuals and concerns. The 1948-1949 armistice gave Israel control over 77.4 percent of all land. Since 1947, Israeli forces have destroyed 385 of the 475 Arab villages inside the “green line” -- Israel’s 1948 borders. Since 1967, Isra

Lisa Hajjar, Mouin Rabbani • 15 min read