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Issue 15 of Fathom out now! / 14 December / 2016

Trump and the Middle East: Prospects and Tasks

by BICOM | December 14, 2016

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At the 2016 BICOM-Jewish News Policy Conference, ‘UK-Israel Shared Strategic Challenges’, a panel of Middle East experts discussed the incoming Trump administration and what it might mean for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the region as a whole. Moderator Dr. Sara Hirschhorn, University Research Lecturer in Israel Studies at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies was joined by Washington Institute William Davidson Distinguished Fellow, Ambassador Dennis Ross, Veteran Israeli-Palestinian negotiator and BICOM Senior Visiting Fellow Brig. Gen (res) Michael...
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Debating Israel’s Identity
by Ruth Gavison

Ruth Gavison is Professor Emerita, holding the Haim H. Cohn Chair of Human Rights, in the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
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What Trump should do with the Iran deal
by Emily B. Landau

Dr. Emily B. Landau is a senior research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Tel Aviv, and head of the Arms...
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Justifying Israel: An interview with Chaim Gans
by Chaim Gans

Chaim Gans is a political philosopher and Professor of Law at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of Philosophical Anarchism and Political Disobedience (Cambridge...
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How to change reality in Gaza and shape the evolution of Hamas: an interview with Grisha Yakubovich
by Grisha Yakubovich

Col. (res) Grisha Yakubovich spent the majority of his 30 years in the IDF in the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which...
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Balfour 100 | We need to talk about the Balfour Declaration
by Toby Greene

2017 is the hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, the British government’s letter of support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Toby...
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Everyday Binationality in Jaffa: an interview with Daniel Monterescu
by Daniel Monterescu

Daniel Monterescu is the author of Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel / Palestine.[1] An anthropologist and a Jaffa-born expert on mixed cities,...
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‘Cooperation between rivals’: a new paradigm for understanding the Israeli-Palestinian system (2006-2016)
by Doron Matza

Doron Matza proposes a new critical paradigm to understand the relationship between the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships: ‘cooperation between rivals’ i.e. an informal ‘deal’ between...
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Mosul: after ISIS, what next?
by Seth Frantzman

Mosul has suffered three jihadist takeovers since 2004. In a detailed mapping of the conflict and its actors, Seth Franztman asks if the impending military...
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Book Review | Tragic Encounters and Ordinary Ethics: Palestine-Israel in British Universities
by Keith Kahn-Harris

The publication of this book could hardly be better timed. The disturbance at a Friends of Israel Society talk at University College London in October...
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Book Review | Dreams Deferred: A Concise Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Luke Akehurst

I tried to read Dreams Deferred in the conventional style, cover to cover. Bad idea. The book isn’t best read like that. Reading it cover-to-cover...
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Book Review | Ike’s Gamble: America’s Rise to Dominance in the Middle East
by David Lowe

In 2013, shortly after his nomination for US Defence Secretary, then Senator Chuck Hagel purchased three dozen copies of a book about President Dwight Eisenhower’s...
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Book review | A Horse Walks Into a Bar
by Liam Hoare

A Horse Walks Into a Bar, an opening line to many a haggard joke, is not necessarily what one would expect as the title of...
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