MER Article "The Traditional Middle in Turkish Politics Disintegrated" Ahmet (a pseudonym) was a founder of the Turkish People’s Liberation Front Party in 1971. He was imprisoned from 1972 to 1974, and released during the general amnesty. He worked with Türk-Iş (the state-endorsed trade union confederation) in the 1970s and helped publish the political journal Birikim. (Author not identified) • 6 min read
MER Article "The Workers as a Class Were Defeated" Metin Kara (a pseudonym) worked on the staff of DISK, the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions. He now lives in exile in Brussels, and he works with the DISK liaison bureau there. His trade union work dates back to 1967, when he was a member of a DISK-affiliated union. From 1975 to 1978, he wor (Author not identified) • 13 min read
MER Article The Hammamat Declaration In early April 1983, a group of 35 Arab intellectuals, academicians, professionals and political activists met at the Hammamat cultural center in Tunis to discuss the crisis of human rights and democratic freedoms in the Arab world. No officials or representatives of any Arab government attended, an (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Letters (November/December 1983) I’ve been working for some time on the question of Israeli military sales. I found Esther Howard’s article, “Israel: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” (MERIP Reports 112) invaluable. However, I have uncovered two minor errors which might mislead others using it as a source. (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article "Abu 'Ammar's Biggest Mistake Was Gambling on the Americans" ‘Abd al-Jawad Salih was born in al-Bira, Palestine, in December 1931. He finished high school there and later attended the American University in Cairo, where he received a B.A. in political economy in 1955. He taught briefly in Jerusalem, and then at a teachers’ training college in Tripoli, Libya. (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article George Hawi, Problems of Strategy, Errors of Opposition CRITICISM AND DEFEAT: AN INTRODUCTION TO GEORGE HAWI A secondary objective of Israel’s invasion of Lebanon was to strike at the forces of the Arab left, which since 1967 had made Beirut their intellectual and, in many cases, operational center. Israel did not fully achieve this objective, just as i (Author not identified) • 20 min read
MER Article Janet Lee Stevens Janet Lee Stevens died in Beirut at the age of 32, in the United States Embassy bombing on April 18. More than anyone that I knew, Janet had an extraordinary sensitivity toward the people and cultures of the Middle East. Since the early 1970s she had lived in Tunisia, Egypt and most recently in Leba (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Halabi, The West Bank Story Rafik Halabi, The West Bank Story (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1982). Rafik Halabi is a Palestinian-Israeli Druze. He writes at times with the viewpoint of an Israeli soldier and a former aide to Jerusalem mayor Teddy Kollek, sometimes as an Arab villager. The West Bank Story explores seve (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Sharon and Eitan After Sabra and Shatila Ariel Sharon: “These Years Have Been Exciting” What is your assessment of the week? Victory, defeats, the end of a career, of an ambition? You can make the assessment yourself; there is no doubt that it was tough, but the fact is that I am still a government member. Is that so important? Very im (Author not identified) • 3 min read
MER Article Danger Signals and Dress Rehearsals for a Palestinian Exodus Jonathan Kuttab works as an attorney in Ramallah. He grew up in the West Bank. After finishing college in the US and getting a law degree from the University of Virginia, he returned to the West Bank in 1979. He recently obtained accreditation from the Israeli bar. He works with Law in the Service o (Author not identified) • 12 min read
MER Article Palestinian Communists and the National Movement George Hazboun is a leading Palestinian trade unionist. He was dismissed from his elected position as deputy mayor of Bethlehem by a January 22 municipal council decision, spearheaded by Mayor Elias Freij, for his alleged abstention from attending council meetings since May 1982. Coming as it did th (Author not identified) • 9 min read
MER Article New Data on Palestinian Workers in Israel A survey covering the inhabitants of the territories who work inside Israel, conducted by the manpower planning section of the Department of Employment, reveals that in 1981 some 76,000 of them were working in Israel. In 1971, the equivalent figure had been 21,000 and in 1975 it had been 66,000. Acc (Author not identified) • 1 min read
