Itamar Rabinovich
Auteur van Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003
Over de Auteur
Itamar Rabinovich is Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, where he holds the Yona and Dina Ettinger Chair in the Contemporary History of the Middle East, and A. D. White Professor-at-Large at Cornell University. Among his books are The War for Lebanon: 1970-1985, Israel in the Middle East, toon meer and The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations. toon minder
Werken van Itamar Rabinovich
Israel in the Middle East : documents and readings on society, politics, and foreign relations, 1948-present (1984) 31 exemplaren
From June to October: The Middle East Between 1967 and 1973 (Collected Papers Series - The Shiloah Center for the… (1978) 4 exemplaren
The view from Damascus state, political community and foreign relations in twentieth-century Syria (2008) 3 exemplaren
מלחמה ומשבר בלבנון : (1975-1981) 1 exemplaar
ha-Shalom she-ḥamaḳ: Yaḥase Yiśraʼel-ʻArav, 1949-1952 (Teʻudat zehut) (Hebrew Edition) (1991) 1 exemplaar
The Greater-Syria Plan and the Palestine Problem 1 exemplaar
יצחק רבין : חייל מדינאי מנהיג 1 exemplaar
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Lurking in the background is the brutal logic of authoritarian power politics not just of Syria but of the surrounding countries and Russia as well. In the Middle East there is a shifting web of friends and enemies on each level of national and international society, divided by religion, nepotism and corruption, and opportunistically united by greed and will to power. People living in other regions of the world may be poorer, but they may still have more political freedom (and a better chance to improve it) than the unfortunate Syrians who started their fateful uprising in the Arab spring.
This book does not tell their story. The authors don't show any particular sympathy for democratic protesters (or their goals) or for the people whose cities were captured by ISIS. Those who were enslaved by ISIS or tortured by the Syrian government are hardly even mentioned. Instead, the authors give a sterile high-level account of Iranian and Russian participation in the war without expressing any moral condemnation. They also discuss the American non-intervention on many pages without coming to any conclusion on whether anything could or should have been done differently. And they don't seem to have any particular insight into authoritarian power politics, either.
Each author is of course free to choose his own vantage point for his own book, and this book is certainly informative for readers who only care about state-level diplomacy. But I would not recommend it to readers looking for a detailed account of what happened in the Syrian civil war, or to those who want to see evil men being called out for their evil deeds.… (meer)