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The War on Error Israel, Islam and the Middle East

342 Pages

by Routledge

342 Pages

by Routledge

342 Pages

by Routledge

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In 'The War on Error', historian and political analyst Martin Kramer presents a series of case studies, some based on pathfinding research and others on provocative analysis, that correct misinformation clouding the public's understanding of the Middle East. He also offers a forensic exploration of how misinformation arises and becomes "fact." The book is divided into five themes: Orientalism and... Read more

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I. The Middle East (Studies) Conflict

1 Dangerous Orientalists
2 The Shifting Sands of Academe
3 Surveying the Middle East
4 Policy and the Academy

Part II. Missing Islam
5 Fundamentalists or Islamists?
6 "Islamic Fascism"
7 Islam for Viewers Like You
8 Afghani and America
9 He Might Have Been Pope
10 Hamas of the Intellectuals
11 Know Thy Enemy

Part III. Misunderstood Arabs
12 1967 and Memory
13 Sadat and Begin: The Peacemakers
14 When Minorities Rule
15 Syria in the Fertile Crescent
16 Arab Spring, Arab Crisis
17 Listening to Arabs

Part IV. Inventing Israel's History
18 What Happened at Lydda
19 Shabtai Teveth and the Whole Truth
20 Who Censored the Six-Day War?

Part V. Elders of Zion
21 The Exodus Conspiracy
22 In the Words of Martin Luther King
23 Israel and the Iraq War
24 Fouad Ajami Goes to Israel
25 "Gaza Is Auschwitz"

Epilogue
Index