FABRICATING PALESTINIAN HISTORY
Havatzelet Yahel, Ruth Kark, and Seth J. Frantzman, Are the Negev Bedouin an Indigenous People?
These nomad Arabs are invaders, not natives of the land
Alex Joffe, The Rhetoric of Nonsense
Outlandish Palestinian historical claims resonate in the West
David Bukay, Founding National Myths
Palestinians appropriate Israel's historical narrative
Shaul Bartal, The Battle over Silwan
An attempt to erase the Jewish historical attachment to Jerusalem
Phyllis Chesler and Nathan Bloom, Hindu vs. Muslim Honor Killings
Indians abandon the practice in the West. Pakistani Muslims continue it
Ofra Bengio, Are Iraq and Turkey Models for Democratization?
Neither style has proven attractive to the Arab regimes
Ilan Berman, Iran Courts Latin America
Tehran's growing penetration poses dangers to the U.S. homeland
Bruce Maddy-Weitzman, The Arab League Comes Alive
The league is suddenly more relevant to regional geopolitics
Dateline: Hilal Khashan, Lebanon's Shiite-Maronite Alliance of Hypocrisy
Their collaboration seeks to curb Sunni power
Brief Reviews
Jihadism in prisons ... Arab Christians ... Energy security ... Israel's survival
