MER Article CERMOC, Mouvements Communautaires et Espaces Urbains au Machreq Mouvements communautaires et Espaces urbains au Machreq (Beirut: Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain, 1985). One of the tragic ironies of the protracted Lebanese crisis is the fate of CERMOC and of Michel Seurat, one of the authors represented in this volume. Suerat wa (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Books on Arab Economies Samir Amin, The Arab Economy Today (London: Zed Press, 1982). Ismail-Sabri Abdalla et al, eds., Images of the Arab Future (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983). (Translated from Arabic) Adda Guecioueur, ed., The Problems of Arab Economic Development and Integration (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 198 Sharif Elmusa • 3 min read
MER Article Ekin, Enduring Witness Larry Ekin, Enduring Witness: The Churches and the Palestinians (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1985). Dale Bishop • 2 min read
MER Article Klare, American Arms Supermarket Michael Klare, American Arms Supermarket (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1984). (Author not identified) • 2 min read
MER Article Findley, They Dare to Speak Out Paul Findley, They Dare to Speak Out: People and Institutions Confront Israel’s Lobby (Westport, CT: Lawrence Hill and Company, 1985). Beshara Doumani • 4 min read
MER Article Iran and the Reagan Doctrine Gary Sick, All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter with Iran (New York: Random House, 1985). Warren Christopher et al, American Hostages in Iran: The Conduct of a Crisis (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985). Fred Halliday • 10 min read
MER Article Israel in Central America What is Israel’s role in Central America, and why have the nations there sought arms and military advisers from Israel? There seem to be four reasons for this curious relationship. The foremost has to do with the reliability of the main military patron in the region, the United States. At one point Margo Gutierrez, Milton Jamail • 25 min read
MER Article Israel and Guatemala From the May-June 1986 issue of Middle East Report: Israel’s increasingly visible presence throughout the Third World, including such disparate places as the Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Zaire, Botswana, El Salvador and Argentina, raises a number of questions about the objectives and chara Cheryl Rubenberg • 30 min read
MER Article "The First Prime-Time Bombing in History" Noam Chomsky has been active in the movement against US military intervention for many years. His most recent book on the Middle East is The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (South End, 1986). His latest book, Turning the Tide (South End, 1986), is on US policy toward Joan Mandell, Zachary Lockman • 9 min read
MER Article Mad Dogs and Presidents When Ronald Reagan ordered US warplanes to attack Libya on April 15, terrorism was the occasion rather than the cause. Like the electronic confetti spewed out to muddle Libyan radar screens, the terrorism issue was snow to disarm and deflect critics of American military intervention. Such interventi Joe Stork • 15 min read
MER Article Comprehending Terror Let us begin with the dictionary definition of terror -- “intense, overpowering fear” -- and of terrorism -- “the use of terrorizing methods of governing or resisting a government.” This simple definition has the virtue of fairness; it focuses on the use of coercive violence and its effects on the v Eqbal Ahmad • 8 min read
MER Article From the Editors (May-June 1986) As the banner on our cover proclaims, spring 1986 is our fifteenth anniversary. In early April, we celebrated with a banquet attended by some 200 hundred readers and friends in Washington. On that occasion, MERIP also honored four individuals whose work has helped inform our own efforts. They were: The Editors • 3 min read
