MER Article Letters (January/February 1986) To the Editors: In pain and sorrow, we learn at this late date that our friend Mahmoud al-Mughrabi was killed by the Israeli Air Force during its October 1 bombing raid on Tunisia. Mahmud was born in Jerusalem in 1960. By the age of 16 he had already been under detention 12 times, and he was one of (Author not identified) • 3 min read
Letters (October-December 1985) The "Lebanon primer" in your June issue was quite good. It is difficult to see what more you could have gotten into it. I have only a couple of remarks, which certainly are not a criticism, as I myself don’t see how you could have worked these nuances in within the short space at your disposal. (Author not identified) • 7 min read
Hart, Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? Alan Hart, Arafat: Terrorist or Peacemaker? (London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1984). (Author not identified) • 1 min read
New Jewish Agenda Convention Urges Recognition of PLO The New Jewish Agenda (NJA), in its first national convention since its founding meeting in 1980, came out strongly for a policy of mutual Israeli-Palestinian recognition and for inclusion of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in peace negotiations. The resolutions represent some of the wor (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Harvard and the CIA A scandal erupted in October over covert CIA funding of ostensibly scholarly projects at Harvard University. This has confirmed long-held suspicions that at least some US academic research on the Middle East is only a cover for intelligence work. The setting is Harvard’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. One (Author not identified) • 4 min read
Who Votes for Kahane? The election of Rabbi Meir Kahane was undoubtedly the most traumatic outcome of the elections to the eleventh Knesset. His party, Kach, obtained 25,907 votes, or 1.2 percent of all valid votes, five times as many as in the previous elections. To understand this, we have examined the economic, social (Author not identified) • 3 min read
"I Am the Arabs from Gaza!" According to the most recent statistics, 48,702 workers from the Occupied Territories were employed in Israel in July of 1984: 13,879 in construction; 18,423 in industry; 12,804 in services; and 3,596 in agriculture. Given the fact that this estimate was made by the employment office -- whose figure (Author not identified) • 4 min read
Letters (July/August 1985) Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli. Truly, the fate of books depends upon the discernment of their readers. My books have already received 87 reviews. None, not the London Times, not Izvestia, not even the Jerusalem Post, thought to -- twice! -- denounce me for being overly moral. Except MER (Author not identified) • 4 min read
Smith, Palestine and the Palestinians Pamela Ann Smith, Palestine and the Palestinians, 1876-1983 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1984). (Author not identified) • 2 min read
Palestinians in Damascus The assault on the Palestinian camps in Beirut ended in a truce signed in Damascus on June 17, which reflected the failure of Amal to defeat the Palestinian militias. The agreement also reflected Syria’s role in the battles by having the Palestinian side represented only by the Palestine National Sa (Author not identified) • 5 min read
Letters (May 1985) Martin van Bruinessen’s response in MERIP Reports 127 (October 1984) contains innuendos and inaccuracies which make it an unacceptable last word on the Armenian question. Van Bruinessen equates Armenian and Turkish views of the mass killings of Armenians under the heading of “dogmatized versions.” (Author not identified) • 5 min read
Khuri, Tribe and State in Bahrain Fu’ad Khuri, Tribe and State in Bahrain (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980). Fu’ad Khuri has provided us with a sensitive analysis of the recent history of Bahrain. He captures the broad sweep of socioeconomic and political change brought about by the colonial bureaucracy and the discovery (Author not identified) • 4 min read
