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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Throughout his year-and-half battle with cancer, Prof. Barry Rubin, founder
of Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center—today the <a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/">Rubin Center</a>—continued to write and
analyze events in the region and across the globe. When he could no longer
type, he dictated. Even from his hospital bed, while hooked up to an IV
dispensing chemo, he struggled to get the words out, publishing his final
article just two weeks before his untimely death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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was very much occupied with the <b>future of the <a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/">Rubin <span style="font-weight: normal;">(GLORIA)</span>
Center</a></b>. It was his dream that the center would continue on the path he
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“My approach,” he once remarked, “…is to ignore the Western scholarly literature and to <b>examine the facts on the ground</b>.” He stressed that events “should be approached as objectively as possible with an honest attempt to be accurate, to produce evidence proving one’s assertions, and to follow where the facts lead.”</span></div>
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the Rubin Center’s exclusive frontline reporting has brought you <b>breaking stories</b>,
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rubin Associate Seth Frantzman’s reporting from the frontline in Mosul, Iraq (Photo credit: Seth Frantzman)</span></i></td></tr>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Creation of a unique archive of over 1,000 Islamic State documents by Rubin Fellow Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi and exposing the inner workings of the organization</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rubin Center Director Dr. Jonathan Spyer one of the only Western correspondents to report from both the regime and rebels sides during the Syrian civil war</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Reporting and collecting material in Mosul, Iraq, during and after its liberation from the Islamic State, published in major media outlets</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rubin Associate Alex Grinberg identifying and analyzing threats and statements in the Iranian media relating to its crisis with Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, then picked up by major global media</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Rubin Fellow Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi's testimony before Congress and the British Parliament on the topic of Syria and the Islamic State</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prof. Rubin was a
pioneer in the field of Middle East research. He established <a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/category/meria-journal-volume-21-number-2-summer-2017/">The
Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)</a> in 1996, at a time when
internet publications were not yet developed. MERIA, which produced
high-quality articles on the region, was one of the <b>first open-access, online
Middle East journal</b>s and has always been offered <b>free of charge</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Prof. Rubin believed in <b>efficiency and accessibility</b>.
He noted, <span style="background: white;">“<b>The money spent on a single
conference or on a print journal could probably fund a journal or other online
project for one or two years</b>.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 16px;">”</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="background: white;"> In one of his final projects, "<a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/pt_free_books/">Free Books</a>," he offered 13 of his books online at no cost.</span></span></div>
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receiving <b>no financial assistance</b> from the <a href="https://www.idc.ac.il/en/pages/home.aspx">Interdisciplinary Center (IDC)
Herzliya</a>. As a non-profit organization, the center has always operated on a
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in encouraging talented young scholars and invested a great deal in helping those
who were unrecognized develop and grow. The Rubin Fellowship program was founded
in 2014 in his memory. Our first Rubin Fellow, Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi, is now a
renowned expert sought out by government officials and whose work has been
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Many more promising young researchers have joined the Rubin Center since,
including Dr. Seth J. Frantzman, Dave McAvoy, Sarit Zehavi, Neri Zilber, and
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In our final
conversations with <b>Prof. Rubin</b>, he<b> urged us to continue the research</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Founded by the late Professor Barry Rubin, the Rubin Center is one of the most versatile and active Mid-East research centers in the world.</h4>
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Rubin Center Director <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/jonathanspyer/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/jonathanspyer/">Dr. Jonathan Spyer</a></span> spent time in government-controlled Syria, reporting from the heart of Damascus and obtaining rare access to senior Syrian officials. <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/06/stormclouds-over-syria/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/06/stormclouds-over-syria/">Spyer exposed the extent of Russian power and immunity in Syria</a></span>. He also visited Homs and Aleppo cities as part of an official delegation of journalists.</h4>
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<em>“The Assad regime makes it hard for journalists to acquire visas. The authorities are keen consumers of media and keep track of the names of reporters who have spent time among their enemies. The number of journalists who have managed to report from both the government and rebel sides is very small…” --Dr. Jonathan Spyer</em> [<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/05/assads-hollow-crown/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/05/assads-hollow-crown/">Read more...</a></span>]</h4>
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<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/jonathanspyer/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/jonathanspyer/">Spyer</a></span>, Rubin Fellow <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/aymennjawad/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/aymennjawad/">Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi</a></span>, and Rubin Research Associate <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/seth-j-frantzman/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/seth-j-frantzman/">Dr. Seth Frantzman</a></span> visited Iraq on different occasions in 2017, embedding with Iraqi forces at the frontline of the war against the Islamic State in Mosul.</h4>
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<em>"If you read one book on the carnage in Syria-Iraq, make it this one. Jonathan Spyer's reporting stands out for its mix of deep knowledge, crisp prose, and personal witness. His courage, savvy, and insight have my admiration." –Daniel Pipes, Middle East Forum</em></div>
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Frantzman also spent time in <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/06/egypt-confronts-economic-and-security-challenges-as-it-attempts-to-regain-its-position-in-the-arab-world/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/06/egypt-confronts-economic-and-security-challenges-as-it-attempts-to-regain-its-position-in-the-arab-world/">Egypt</a></span>, Jordan, and the Palestinian territories carrying out research on security and policy issues affecting those regions and states.</h4>
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Jawad has also profiled numerous militias in Syria, including native Syrian Hizballah and the integration of Shi’i militias into the Syrian state apparatus and has conducted exclusive interviews with dozens of militia leaders. He is currently working on a major new research project looking at the Islamic State’s internal security structures.</h4>
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With continued instability in the Middle East and questions about the new U.S. administration’s role in the region, the Rubin Center’s third annual conference in memory of the late Prof. Barry Rubin, “<strong>A New Era? Trump and the Middle East</strong>,” brought together a panel of experts to discuss U.S. policy under President Trump and the implications for Israel and the region.</h4>
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The Rubin Center is regularly sought out by the White House, British Parliament, China, Israel, India, Canada, and the Czech Republic, Finland, Japan, and other governments to advise policymakers, as well as media bodies and human rights NGOs.</h4>
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As part of its consultancy activities, <a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/07/israel-and-hizballah-the-battle-before-the-battle/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/07/israel-and-hizballah-the-battle-before-the-battle/">the Rubin Center recently prepared a detailed and innovative <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">report on the <strong>Hizballah threat to Israel</strong></span>.</a></h4>
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The Rubin Center also publishes in a broad range of media outlets, among them the<em> New York Times</em>, <em>Jane’s Intelligence Review,</em> <em>Foreign Policy</em>, <em>West Point’s CTC Sentinel</em>, <em>The American Interest</em>, <em>the National Interest</em>, <em>The Australian</em>, and more.</h4>
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<a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/07/israels-secret-arab-allies/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/07/israels-secret-arab-allies/"><em><br /><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">Read Rubin Center Research Associate Neri Zilber’s “<strong>Israel’s Secret Arab Allies</strong>” for the New York Times</span></em></a></h4>
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<strong><em><u><br />Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)</u></em></strong>, the Rubin Center’s quarterly journal, with a circulation of over 25,000, covers the latest developments in the region from a wide variety of viewpoints. <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/about-meria/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/about-meria/">Get your free subscription today!</a></span></h4>
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Rubin Fellow Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi produced a <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/07/israels-relations-with-the-syrian-rebels-an-assessment/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2017/07/israels-relations-with-the-syrian-rebels-an-assessment/">groundbreaking study on <strong>Israel’s relations with the Syrian rebels</strong></a></span> for the center’s <a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/category/meria-journal-volume-21-number-1-spring-2017/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/category/meria-journal-volume-21-number-1-spring-2017/">M<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">iddle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA)</span></a>, based on extensive Arabic language research and interviews with rebels in the border area.</h4>
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<em>“Numerous articles on Israel’s relations with the Syrian Arab rebels have suffered from an absence of on the ground knowledge and sourcing. This MERIA special report from Rubin Center Fellow Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi represents the <strong>most in-depth and serious study</strong> on this important issue to have appeared until now.”—Dr. Jonathan Spyer, Editor, MERIA</em></h4>
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The Rubin Center has produced numerous books on subjects related to the modern Middle East.</h4>
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As part of our <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/pt_free_books/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/pt_free_books/"><strong>Free Books Project</strong></a></span>, we continue to offer <strong>13 of Barry Rubin’s books online at no cost</strong>, including books covering the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Syria, U.S. policy, Jewish assimilation, and more.</h4>
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The Rubin Center is happy to welcome Research Associates <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/seth-j-frantzman/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/seth-j-frantzman/"><strong>Dr. Seth Frantzman</strong></a></span>, a prolific journalist and researcher who travels frequently throughout the region, and <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/staff-2/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/staff-2/"><strong>Lieutenant-Colonel (Res.) Sarit Zehavi</strong></a></span>, a former career officer with the research department of IDF Military Intelligence who specializes in the Israel-Lebanon border area. Visiting Fellow <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration-line: underline;"><a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/aynur-bashirova-and-ahmet-sozen/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/aynur-bashirova-and-ahmet-sozen/"><strong>Aynur Bashirova</strong></a></span>, an expert on Israeli-Azerbaijani relations from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), has also recently joined <a data-mce-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/staff-2/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/staff-2/">t<span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">he Rubin team</span></a>.</h4>
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<u><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Sunday, March 5<sup>th</sup>,
2017, at 8:30am<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Prof. Uriel
Reichman,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
President and Founder, IDC Herzliya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rubin,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Honorary President, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC
Herzliya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Spyer,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Director, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, <br />
IDC Herzliya<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Symposium on “A New Era? Trump and the Middle East”<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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Chair: Dr. Jonathan Spyer,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Director, Rubin Center for Research in
International Affairs, IDC Herzliya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Associate, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC Herzliya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Iran and
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Al-Tamimi</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">,
Rubin Fellow, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC Herzliya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Local Loyalist
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Seth
Frantzman, </span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Journalist
and Op-ed Editor, <i>Jerusalem Post</i><span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">"Facing the
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Lindenstrauss,</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
Research Associate, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS)</span><i><span style="background: yellow; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Multiple Dilemmas in a Divided Middle East"</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dr. Martin
Kramer</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">,
President, Shalem College<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“America: Great
Again in the Middle East?”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Caroline Glick</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Journalist and
Middle-East Commentator<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“Israel’s Opportunity
with the Trump Administration”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Neri Zilber</span></b><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Research
Associate, Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs, IDC Herzliya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">“The
Palestinians Adrift: After Obama, with Trump, Under Abbas”<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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versatile and active Mid-East research centers in the world. Through its
groundbreaking frontline reporting and research, the center makes the
most up-to-date, accurate, often otherwise inaccessible information
available to policymakers, the broader public, and the media.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Throughout 2016, Rubin Center Director </span><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/jonathanspyer/"><span style="color: black;">Dr. Jonathan Spyer</span></a><span style="color: black;">
has continued his frontline reporting of the wars in Syria and Iraq.
Spyer recently visited the Turkish-Syrian border area, reporting on the
Turkish-supported rebel militias currently at the forefront of the
Turkish incursion into northern Syria; and in Iraqi Kurdistan, reporting
on preparations for the offensive to liberate Mosul from Islamic State
(IS). His articles have appeared recently in </span><a href="http://www.janes.com/article/62756/syrian-insurgency-persists-despite-divisions"><span style="color: black;"><i>Jane’s Intelligence Review</i></span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/08/who-should-rule-syria-nobody/"><span style="color: black;"><i>The Spectator</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"> (UK), and </span><a href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/inquirer/jihadi-jumble-syrias-endless-war-begins-on-the-turkish-border/news-story/eb0bfefc2bc3e37af394169a00c1fda6"><span style="color: black;"><i>The Australian</i></span></a><span style="color: black;">.
Spyer also recently spent time in Syria with the Syrian Democratic
Forces militia, reporting for these and other publications.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Rubin Fellow </span><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/aymennjawad/"><span style="color: black;">Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi</span></a><span style="color: black;">
has continued to build up his unique archives of over 500 Islamic State
documents, creating a vital public resource on the inner workings of
the organization (financial accounts, personnel lists, and more). These
archives and collections have included many previously unseen documents
and texts leaked by Jawad, including important works like </span><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/12/the-islamic-state-masterplan-of-administration-some-analytical-notes/"><span style="color: black;"><i>Principles in the Administration of the Islamic State</i></span></a><span style="color: black;">
(a bureaucratic position paper outline of the state project) and a
manual guiding commanders in planning and executing military missions.
Britain’s </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/07/leaked-isis-document-reveals-plan-building-state-syria?CMP=share_btn_tw"><span style="color: black;"><i>The Guardian</i></span></a><span style="color: black;"> has called Jawad’s archive “the most thorough log of Isis documents available to the public.”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">Jawad also wrote </span><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2016/04/a-caliphate-under-strain-the-documentary-evidence/"><span style="color: black;">a widely publicized paper</span></a><span style="color: black;"> for West Point’s <i>CTC Sentinel </i>assessing
the Islamic State’s strengths and weaknesses based partly on internal
documents. While with the Rubin Center, Jawad has profiled numerous
militias in Syria, including native Syrian Hizballah and the integration
of Shi’i militias into the Syrian state apparatus.</span></span></span></div>
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Center Director Dr. Jonathan Spyer recently authored a paper on
Israel’s strategic doctrine for the Friends of Israel group, and </span><a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Spyer-Final_web.pdf"><span style="color: black;">a paper on Iranian regional strategy</span></a><span style="color: black;"> for the Henry Jackson Society think tank, for which he interviewed senior serving Israeli officials. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">We are also happy to welcome new Rubin Center Associate </span><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/neri-zilber/"><span style="color: black;">Neri Zilber</span></a><span style="color: black;">,
a journalist and researcher on Middle East politics and culture and an
adjunct fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.</span></span></span></div>
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specialists on the ground throughout the Middle East, the Rubin Center
frequently consults for governments, including the United States, UK,
China, Israel, India, Canada, and the Czech Republic, news media, and
academic research. Rubin researchers have been sought out by the White
House, the British Parliament, and other Western governments, as well as
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2016 alone, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi has been quoted in a wide range of
media outlets, academic journals, and government briefings—including in </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/309713940/041916-Tf-Supplemental-Hearing-Memo"><span style="color: black;">a U.S. House of Representatives memo</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on investigating financing for terrorism, and </span><a href="https://async.idc.ac.il/owa/redir.aspx?C=y980W4rSH0So0Zut353dNM2dCZJa1dMIgaA693ylab7UfKlmLmscefJbrWmQiwqhKN-7zkTrf0o.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.ohchr.org%2fDocuments%2fHRBodies%2fHRCouncil%2fCoISyria%2fA_HRC_32_CRP.2_en.pdf"><span style="color: black;">by the United Nations</span></a><span style="color: black;"> on the subject of crimes against the Yazidis in Syria.</span></span></span></div>
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and Copenhagen as part of the center’s ongoing ties with a number of
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a crucial geographical and political location, Turkey’s importance is
growing rapidly throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the Caucasus.
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policy, <i>Turkish Studies</i> quarterly—listed in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)—offers scholarly discussion on these topics and more.</span></span></span></div>
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<li style="color: black; font-family: georgia,serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , serif;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300140908/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300140908&linkCode=as2&tag=wp-amazon-associate-20" style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: black;"><i>Nazis, Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East</i></span></a><span style="color: black;">—about
the political alliance forged among Third Reich leaders, Arab
nationalists, and Muslim religious authorities during the 1930s and
1940s</span></span></span></li>
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the military history of the past hundred years, including both World
Wars, the Turkish-Greek conflicts, Arab nationalism, the Arab-Israeli
conflicts, and the post-2003 fighting in Iraq</span></span></span></li>
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including books covering the Israel-Palestinian conflict, Syria, U.S.
policy, Jewish assimilation, and more.</span></span></span></li>
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Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, has been a center for Islamic State
since its conquest by the group in 2014. The Iraqi government, the
United States-led coalition and the … <a class="more-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2016/09/mosul-the-origins-and-future-of-competing-agendas-over-retaking-the-city-from-isis/">[Read More...]</a></div>
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In the decades since 1949, China has made major progress in the area of
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</article>Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-15615733616991995432016-07-17T10:28:00.001+03:002016-07-17T10:28:36.514+03:00Huffington Post Reviews Rubin & Schwanitz's Nazis, Islamists: "What We Got Wrong About Nazis And Terrorists"<div data-mce-style="text-align: justify;" style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">
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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-we-got-wrong-about-n_b_10864118"><i>Huffington Post, July 7, </i>2016</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=359330079121990828" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><i>“Terrorism, the Skorzeny Syndrome, is flourishing in the modern world, a reminder that Hitler and Nazism are still taking their toll more than three decades after the Third Reich collapsed.”</i>— Glenn B. Infield, biographer of Nazi commander Otto Skorzeny<br />
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On November 28, 1941, Adolf Hitler and Arab leader Mohammed Amin al-Husaini had a pivotal 90-minute meeting. New research has revealed that Hitler and the Mufti verbally cemented a pact to exterminate the Jewish population in Europe and in the Middle East.<br />
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Adolf Hitler and Mohammed Amin al-Husaini meet in Berlin, 1941</div>
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This critical meeting changed the course of history, and it likely represents the dawn of modern-day terrorism, according to the riveting book by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang Schwanitz Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East.<br />
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ISIS’s dream of a border-melting Islamic State echoes Hitler’s efforts to create a Third Reich in Europe. The escalating terror attacks in Orlando, Turkey, Dhaka, the Medina and Baghdad in response to ISIS’s recent loss of territory are reminiscent of terrorist tactics the Nazis resorted to as their dream was crushed near the end of World War II.<br />
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Shortly after al-Husaini and Hitler met, Hitler and his inner circle began to plan at the Wannsee Conference how they would carry out the genocide of Europe’s Jews. The alliance between al-Husaini and Hitler would eventually culminate in Nazi leaders relocating to the Middle East after World War II. There, they would spread their socialist and genocidal ideologies while training Arab jihadists in terrorist tactics.<br />
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<b>The Nazi Origins Of Modern-Day Terrorism</b><br />
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During the final months of World War II, Hitler saw his dreams for a Third Reich crumble as Allied Forces turned the tides of war. Hitler became increasingly desperate for results and for propaganda wins to maintain morale. He sought counsel from Otto Skorzeny, the leader of Operation Greif, which used German soldiers to infiltrate their opponents by adapting enemy languages, uniforms and customs. Skorzeny was the twisted genius who had dressed Nazi soldiers in American uniforms in an effort to spread rumors of Eisenhower’s assassination and demoralize the Allies. In 1943, Skorzeny led the rescue mission that freed Benito Mussolini from prison. In 1944, he organized a secret unit of German suicide bombers.<br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in;">Frontline reporting:</b><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">
</span><span style="background: white; text-indent: -0.25in;">Rubin Center researchers regularly </span><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">visit the region, including
Iraq and war-torn Syria, witnessing developments first-hand. The center has exposed many important news stories. In addition to being first to reveal </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2014/10/meria-special-report-did-isis-use-chemical-weapons-against-the-kurds-in-kobani-warning-graphic-content/" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">ISIS’s
use of chemical weapons</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">, Rubin Center Director Dr. Jonathan Spyer visited
Baghdad this year and obtained unprecedented access to the Shi’a militias, interviewing
senior officials from those organizations there. Spyer and Rubin Fellow Aymenn
Jawad al-Tamimi </span><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2014/12/iran-and-the-shia-militias-advance-in-iraq/" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">published
the first piece anywhere to call out the role being played by the militias</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">,
which later became mainstream knowledge. Spyer </span><a href="http://henryjacksonsociety.org/2015/10/15/tehrans-servants-iraqs-shia-militias-emerge-as-the-key-armed-forces-facing-is-in-iraq/" style="text-indent: -0.25in;">later
published a detailed report on the subject</a><span style="text-indent: -0.25in;">. Spyer has also reported from
Syria and Turkey, conducting groundbreaking research on the nature and
limitations of U.S.-Kurdish cooperation in Syria.</span></span></li>
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the United States, UK, China, Israel, India, Canada, and the Czech Republic--news
media, and academic research. Rubin
researchers have been sought out by the White House, the British
parliament, and other Western governments, as well as media bodies, and
human rights NGOs. Rubin Research Fellow Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, for
example, has testified before the British House of Commons on the threat
represented by the Islamic State. The Rubin Center also
provides research work for important pro-Western organizations as
well as for major media outlets. Its work has been published/cited in the <i>New
York Times</i>, <i>Huffington Post</i>, <i>FOX News,</i> and more. Dr. Jonathan Spyer
is also a regular contributor to <i>The Australian</i> and to <i>Jane’s Intelligence
Review</i>.</span></span></li>
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Review of International Affairs (MERIA)</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-decoration: none;">: </span></b></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Covering the latest developments in the
region from a wide variety of viewpoints, including U.S. policy, radical
movements, and minorities, the Rubin Center’s quarterly journal <i>MERIA</i> has a
circulation of over 25,000. Get your free subscription today!</span></span></li>
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geographical and political location, </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Turkey’s
importance is growing rapidly throughout Europe, the Middle East, and the
Caucasus. With an upsurge in interest in its
history, politics, and foreign policy, <i>Turkish Studies</i> quarterly--listed
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Transforming Fire: The Rise of the Israel-Islamist Conflict</a></span></i><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;">—which
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adversaries and Israel’s response to this. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 12pt;">In </span><span style="color: windowtext; font-size: 12pt;">2015,
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including such topics as both world wars, the Turkish-Greek conflicts,
Arab nationalism, the Arab-Israeli conflicts, and the post-2003 fighting
in Iraq. As part of the center’s <a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/pt_free_books/">Free Books</a> project,
we also offer 13 of Barry Rubin’s books online, including on the
Israel-Palestinian conflict, Syria, U.S. policy, Jewish assimilation, and
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<a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/10/why-the-arab-spring-failed-the-cultural-roots-of-the-arab-predicament-a-review-essay-of-tarek-heggys-the-arab-cocoon-and-the-arab-mind-bound/" rel="bookmark" style="color: #c35429; text-decoration: none;" title="WHY THE ARAB SPRING FAILED: THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF THE ARAB PREDICAMENT, A REVIEW ESSAY OF TAREK HEGGY’S THE ARAB COCOON AND THE ARAB MIND BOUND">WHY THE ARAB SPRING FAILED: THE CULTURAL ROOTS OF THE ARAB PREDICAMENT, A REVIEW ESSAY OF TAREK HEGGY’S THE ARAB COCOON AND THE ARAB MIND BOUND</a></h2>
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<span class="date published time" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2015-10-29T17:56:03+0000">OCTOBER 29, 2015</span> BY <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="fn" style="margin: 0px auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/jonathan-w-pidluzny/" rel="author" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by Jonathan W. Pidluzny">JONATHAN W. PIDLUZNY</a></span></span> <a class="post-edit-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=9693&action=edit" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit Post">(EDIT)</a></div>
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Every year, life in the Arab Middle East gets worse for its inhabitants. Tarek Heggy’s books The Arab Cocoon and The Arab Mind Bound (2011) argue that cultural factors are to blame. With all eyes focused on the Arab Spring, his books did not receive the attention they deserved on publication. They are worth revisiting today, because they help to explain why the Arab Spring failed. Heggy argues that a “Bedouin model” of Islam spread wildly in recent decades with … <a class="more-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/10/why-the-arab-spring-failed-the-cultural-roots-of-the-arab-predicament-a-review-essay-of-tarek-heggys-the-arab-cocoon-and-the-arab-mind-bound/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;">[Read more...]</a></div>
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<span class="date published time" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" title="2015-10-20T13:19:16+0000">OCTOBER 20, 2015</span> BY <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="fn" style="margin: 0px auto 0px 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.rubincenter.org/author/alex-grinberg/" rel="author" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" title="Posts by Alex Grinberg">ALEX GRINBERG</a></span></span> <a class="post-edit-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=9665&action=edit" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" title="Edit Post">(EDIT)</a></div>
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In light of the July 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers, as well as Russian involvement in Syria, Russian-Iranian relations deserve special attention. This article argues that Russia and Iran have both common interests and cultural similarities that simultaneously foster their bilateral relationship and complicate these ties. This is also reflected in the foreign policies of both countries. Russia has been managing a “hybrid war” in Ukraine through … <a class="more-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/10/iran-and-russia-similarities-and-implications-for-decisionmaking/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;">[Read more...]</a></div>
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This article examines the broad implications of the 2015 Yemeni civil war on Chinese foreign policy in the Middle East. The findings show that the ongoing crisis in Yemen presents a challenge to the key element of non-intervention guiding Chinese foreign policy in the region and may force Beijing to gradually abandon its low-key strategy in managing its relations with the countries in the region. INTRODUCTION The Yemeni civil war, which began in … <a class="more-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/10/chinas-middle-east-foreign-policy-and-the-yemen-crisis-challenges-and-implications/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;">[Read more...]</a></div>
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Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has faced numerous security challenges. Ongoing threats to the country’s security could potentially lead to a serious crisis or even escalate to a war. Israel’s greatest concerns are Iran’s nuclear program, Hizballah in Lebanon, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. In addition, there has been unrest in the West Bank, incidents in the Golan Heights, fighting in Sinai, and uncertainty about Jordan. Since its establishment in 1948, … <a class="more-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/10/israel-in-face-of-evolving-security-challenges/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;">[Read more...]</a></div>
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The following article is the personal testimony of an Iraqi Jew regarding the last days of his community and their preparations for emigration to Israel. It is an extract from Emil Murad’s book, The Quagmire (London: Freund Publishing, 1998). Editor’s Note: This article differs quite significantly from the usual material published by MERIA. The story of the immigration of Middle Eastern and North African Jewish communities to Israel, and their expulsion from their host … <a class="more-link" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/09/the-zionist-underground-in-iraq/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;">[Read more...]</a></div>
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When Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the role played in the Holocaust by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, he cannot have imagined the reaction he would detonate.</div>
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What he said was this: “He [Husseini] flew to Berlin. Hitler didn’t want to exterminate the Jews at the time; he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said, ‘If you expel them, they’ll all come here.’ ‘So what should I do with them?’ he [Hitler] asked.</div>
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He [Husseini] said, ‘Burn them.’” In the subsequent global firestorm, Netanyahu was denounced for exonerating Hitler. It was said he had claimed the mufti had given Hitler the idea of exterminating the Jews when the two met in November 1941; that he was cynically trying to tarnish today’s Palestinians; even that he was a Holocaust denier.</div>
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His subsequent protest that he had no intention of absolving Hitler of responsibility fell on deaf ears. Even those who acknowledged that the mufti had allied with the Nazis insisted Netanyahu had turned history back to front.</div>
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Most of this reaction, however, is at best wide of the mark and at worst quite obscene. For Netanyahu was fundamentally correct.</div>
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There can be no doubt he spoke too loosely. He has provided no source for the words he quoted from both Husseini and Hitler at that November 1941 meeting. And he should have acknowledged that the mass murder of European Jews was already well under way, and that Hitler had talked about exterminating the Jews since the 1920s.</div>
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But mass murder is not the same as genocide. And the precise moment when Hitler decided to exterminate the whole of European Jewry – the “Final Solution” – has long been disputed by historians.</div>
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For even while the Nazis were rounding up Jews for slaughter they were also deporting them – more than 500,000 between 1933 and 1941. And recently unearthed documentary evidence suggests that the mufti and Hitler egged each other on in a mutual genocidal frenzy.</div>
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A book published last year, <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300140908/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300140908&linkCode=as2&tag=wp-amazon-associate-20" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300140908/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300140908&linkCode=as2&tag=wp-amazon-associate-20"><em>Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East,</em></a> by Barry Rubin and Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, argues that the mufti’s alliance with Hitler turned the extermination of the whole of European Jewry into a strategic imperative.</div>
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As late as July 1941, according to Hermann Göring, Hitler thought the last of the Jews could be removed from Germany by “emigration or evacuation.”</div>
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The authors write: “Yet since other countries refused to take many or any Jewish refugees, Palestine was the only possible refuge, as designated by the League of Nations in 1922. If that last safe haven was closed, mass murder would be Hitler’s only alternative.”</div>
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Rubin and Schwanitz make clear that the November 1941 meeting between Hitler and Husseini merely continued a dialogue that had started earlier that year about the mufti’s opposition to Hitler’s deportation of European Jews.</div>
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“In February 1941, Hitler had received al-Husaini’s proposal for an alliance of which one condition – paragraph seven – was that Germany stop Jewish emigration from Europe. After Hitler promised al-Husaini on March 11 to do so, Germany’s expulsion of the Jews was impossible and only mass murder remained.</div>
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“... After agreeing in early June to meet al-Husaini to discuss the issue, Hitler ordered SS leader Reinhard Heydrich on July 31, 1941 to prepare an ‘overall solution for the Jewish question in Europe.’ On October 31, he ended the legal emigration of Jews from German-ruled areas. But the specific final decision had not yet been taken.”</div>
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On November 28, Hitler met the mufti in Berlin. “Behind closed doors, Hitler promised al-Husaini that Arab aspirations would be fulfilled. Once ‘we win’ the battle against world Jewry, Hitler said, Germany would eliminate the Jews in the Middle East, too.” The following day, “he ordered Heydrich to organise a conference within ten days to prepare ‘the final solution of the Jewish question.’” As the book also shows, the mufti was making common cause with Hitler long before 1941. By 1936, he was courting the Nazis for arms and money. In 1940, he sent Hitler a nine-page letter detailing a proposed alliance. The Palestine question, he said, united them in their joint hatred of the British and the Jews. He proposed to make Syria, Lebanon, Palestine and Transjordan a single federated state with a Nazi-style system. In return, he wanted Hitler’s help to wipe out all Jews in the Middle East.</div>
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Evidence that the mufti played a key role in the Holocaust was provided at the Nuremberg Tribunal by Eichmann’s close associate in the extermination program, Dieter Wisliceny. He said: “The mufti was one of the instigators of the systematic extermination of European Jewry and was a partner and adviser to Eichmann and Hitler for carrying out this plan.”</div>
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This was corroborated at the tribunal by two witnesses, Andrej Steiner and Rudolf Kasztner, who confirmed that Wisliceny had talked about Husseini in these terms during the war.</div>
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Given all this evidence, the reaction to Netanyahu’s remarks demonstrates historical ignorance, venom toward Israel and particular malice toward Netanyahu himself – not least amongst Israeli Jews. Prof. Moshe Zimmermann of the Hebrew University, for example, said the prime minister “joins a long line of people that we would call Holocaust deniers.”</div>
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But as Dr. Alex Safian of CAMERA has pointed out, Zimmermann has previously likened IDF solders to the Nazi SS and Jewish children living in Hebron to the Hitler Youth. If anyone is guilty of Holocaust denial, it is surely Prof. Zimmermann.</div>
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Nevertheless, one has to wonder how Netanyahu could have been so careless with his words. The answer, I would suggest, is that he and the rest of Israel’s political class are crippled by the arrogance of moral certainty.</div>
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They know they are the victims of irreconcilable Arab aggression. They know they stand for morality, history and law.</div>
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And they think the evidence is so overwhelmingly obvious that no reasonable person could disagree.</div>
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They don’t grasp the extent to which reason has been eclipsed by emotion, ideology and bigotry. So they fail to realize that there is no lie about themselves too absurd or outrageous for the enemies of Israel to regurgitate.</div>
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These enemies react with fury to evidence of the grand mufti’s Nazi enthusiasm because this destroys the fiction that the Palestinian cause so dear to their hearts is noble. This cause is in fact the direct heir to a genocidal project.</div>
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We know that Nazi doctrine whipped millions of Germans into murderous frenzy. We also know Soviet propaganda turned truth and lies inside out and brainwashed millions.</div>
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Yasser Arafat learned from the Soviet Union how to rewrite history and capture the minds of the credulous. Mahmoud Abbas, whose doctoral thesis denied the Holocaust, hero-worships Husseini. Palestinian propaganda reproduces vile Nazi tropes of Jew-hatred.</div>
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Last century’s Islamist ideologues drew on both Communism and Nazism. The Palestinian cause likewise fuses Islamist and Nazi ambitions with Soviet psychological warfare. This explains not just the frenzied war against Israel, but why so many in the West are cheering it on.</div>
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That is the context of Netanyahu’s mufti firestorm.</div>
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<em><br />Melanie Phillips is a columnist for</em> The Times <i>(UK).</i><br />
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken flack for his comments this week that overstated the influence that Haj Amin al-Husseini had on Adolf Hitler, but a leading historian says that al-Husseini nevertheless played a key role in Hitler’s plans outside of Europe.</div>
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Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz’s [and Barry Rubin's] book on Hitler’s relationship with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is being <a href="http://www.vox.com/2015/10/21/9584122/netanyahu-mufti-hitler" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;">credited</a> as the source of Netanyahu’s belief that it was al-Husseini who convinced Hitler to exterminate the Jews rather than deport them from Europe.</div>
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Schwanitz, a scholar at the Middle East Forum, says that Netanyahu “exaggerated” his claim but insists that the broader argument that there has been a “long-standing incitement of people against Jews” emanating from the Middle East since the 1920s is “certainly correct”….</div>
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*<em>Prof. Dr. Wolfgang G. Schwanitz is a Visiting Professor at the Rubin Center for Research in International Affairs and a leading historian of the Middle East. A native of East Germany, he was raised in Egypt. He holds a Ph.D. in Middle Eastern Studies from Leipzig University, German. He has taught at several German and American universities. He was head of Middle Eastern history at the Academy of Science in Berlin, where he also worked at the Max Planck Society’s Orient Center. He has been a visiting fellow at the French Center in Cairo, Princeton University, and the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. The has authored and edited numerous books, in addition to over 150 scholarly articles on modern Middle Eastern history and international relations. He was a researcher and lecturer of Arabic, world history, and Middle Eastern history at Burlington County College in Pemberton, New Jersey, and Rider University in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. He is also an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum of Philadelphia.</em></div>
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This early warning confirms the usefulness of the methods the Rubin Center has been pioneering in the field of Middle East research. These methods involve the combination of field reporting and the maintenance of an extensive network of sources throughout the Middle East, with access to relevant professional agencies and adherence to the highest standards of research methodology.<br /><br />The CW report is only one example of the fruits of our research over the last year. 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While the majority of research on IS has focused only or mainly on their murderous activities, Tamimi’s work draws a deeper and more complex picture of this dangerous phenomenon--one that is essential if it is to be understood and defeated.<br /><span style="color: #75888e;"> </span><br />In other areas, too, our work has placed us ahead of the game. <span style="color: #75888e;"> </span><a data-cke-saved-href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2014/12/iran-and-the-shia-militias-advance-in-iraq/" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2014/12/iran-and-the-shia-militias-advance-in-iraq/" style="color: #0782c1;">The Rubin Center was the <strong>first to flag the role of Iran-supported Shi’i militias as playing a vital role in the battle against IS in Iraq</strong>. 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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-12346711453428197932015-07-26T16:05:00.000+03:002015-07-26T16:09:22.630+03:00MERIA Journal, Vol. 19. No. 1 (2015) : Regime Collapse & Sectarian War: Where is the Middle East Headed?<h4 class="widgettitle" style="background-color: white; color: #755f61; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Verdana; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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The following transcript discusses the implications for Israel in light of the instability in the Middle East since the Arab Spring and Iran’s nuclear and hegemonial ambitions. It is part of a symposium entitled, “Regime Collapse and Sectarian War: Where is the Middle East Headed?” The symposium was held on March 15, 2015, to mark […]</div>
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The following transcript addresses European domestic and foreign policy since the start of the Arab Spring and in light of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. It also discusses increasing antisemitism in Europe. It is part of a symposium entitled, “Regime Collapse and Sectarian War: Where is the Middle East Headed?” The symposium was held on March 15, […]</div>
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In the following transcript Dr. Martin Kramer recounts his friendship and long acquaintance with Prof. Barry Rubin and their shared interest in U.S. Middle East policy, noting Rubin’s deep concerns regarding the Obama administration in this regard. Also discussed is the administration’s view of the region, contending that it has an appeal to the traditional […]</div>
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<a class="" href="http://www.rubincenter.org/2015/07/the-iranian-nuclear-program-and-regional-instablity/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" title="THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM AND REGIONAL INSTABLITY"><img alt="Amb. Dore Gold addresses the Iranian nuclear program and Iran's role in the ongoing Middle East turmoil, at a the launch of the newly named Rubin Center for International Affairs, March 15, 2015." class="attachment-Homepage" src="http://www.rubincenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/OS__0092-110x110.jpg" height="110" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0px; padding: 4px;" width="110" /></a><br />
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The following transcript addresses the Iranian nuclear program and the P5+1 negotiations as well as Iran’s role in the ongoing Middle East turmoil. It is part of a symposium entitled, “Regime Collapse and Sectarian War: Where is the Middle East Headed?” The symposium was held on March 15, 2015, to mark the launch of the […]</div>
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This article estimates the probable conflict intensity in connection with Islamic State (IS, formerly known as ISIS and ISIL) terrorism. Based on Pew data, covering 2/5 of the global Muslim population, it is estimated that 17.38 percent of Muslims worldwide openly express terror sympathies (five terrorism support indicators used). Quantitative estimates on terror support rates […]</div>
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This report–in part based on a two-week trip to Lebanon in April 2015–examines the role of Hizballah in the ongoing Syrian civil war, particularly its relation with the wider Shi’i jihadi militia efforts in support of the Assad regime. The article also examines “martyrdom” commemorations for Hizballah fighters killed in Syria, with a collection of […]</div>
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The decline of America’s influence in the Arab World has coincided with the rise of Iran’s and the collapse of Middle East’s old order. The result is a power vacuum manifesting itself in a series of regional proxy wars such as those in Syria and Yemen. Not only is a battle between the Gulf States […]<br />
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-24405439287386091862015-03-12T20:37:00.002+02:002015-03-12T20:37:25.843+02:00Updated program: Rubin Center Launch & Symposium: “Regime Collapse and Sectarian War: Where Is the Middle East Headed?”<h5 style="background-color: white; color: #c35429; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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We hope to see you Sunday at the Rubin Center launch & symposium in honor of Prof. Barry Rubin.</h5>
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-83740288508558883282015-03-03T00:51:00.000+02:002015-03-12T20:33:09.547+02:00Invitation: Rubin Center Launch & Symposium: “Regime Collapse and Sectarian War: Where Is the Middle East Headed?”<h5 style="background-color: white; color: #c35429; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Trebuchet MS'; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;">
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We are pleased to announce the renaming of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center in memory of the center’s founder, the late Prof. Barry Rubin.</h5>
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-86328558597277059282015-02-10T13:06:00.001+02:002015-02-10T13:13:35.656+02:00Barry Rubin’s Improbable Journey<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Martin Kramer</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, February 3, marks one year since Barry Rubin, scholar and friend, lost his bout with an aggressive cancer. He was sixty-four. The many tributes published upon his passing celebrated him as a prolific and passionate advocate for his adopted country, Israel, and as a tireless scholar who generated a steady flow of writings and an astonishing array of initiatives: a think tank, several journals, and many conferences. His highly regarded expertise made him the go-to source on the Middle East for journalists, diplomats, and some Israeli public figures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was Barry Rubin, the finished product. Had you told me thirty-five years ago, when I first met him, that he would <a href="http://yidwithlid.blogspot.co.il/2014/02/barry-rubin-my-teacher-my-friend-passed.html" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">become</a> not only “one of the great intellectual defenders of Israel,” but an Israeli, I would have dismissed you. Nothing would have seemed so improbable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry grew up in northwest Washington to well-to-do parents who strived to assimilate. He later <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/pt_free_books/children-of-dolhinov-our-ancestors-and-ourselves/?chapter=4" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recalled</a> having “no sense of my own history, coming from a family which had tried to obliterate its own past.” Barry had no Zionist upbringing whatsoever—no youth movement, no summer camp, no family trip to Israel. “When I attended one-day-a-week religious school at Washington’s premiere Reform synagogue,” he later wrote, “we were told that Jewish history began with the discovery of the New World. Hebrew was taught without any reference to the existence of the state of Israel.” (Personal experience would inspire the mature Barry to write a book-length <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/assimilation-and-its-discontents-by-barry-rubin/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">critique</a> of Jewish assimilation.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ron Radosh has <a href="http://pjmedia.com/ronradosh/2014/02/03/remembrances-of-my-friend-barry-rubin-rip/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">noted</a> that as a young student, Barry was “hard left—as left as they come.” Perhaps it was his youthful reaction to privilege. Barry’s father was a successful Washington property developer; his parents, Barry later <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/00-Prologue.pdf" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote</a> laconically, “changed their Thunderbirds every year or so [in the 1960s] and at some point, a few years later, would move into Mercedes.” Radosh tells of Barry’s enthusiasm for Castro’s Cuba, which he visited in 1975. (“You’ll love Cuba!” he told Radosh. “You’ll see how Castro is building a new socialist country right in our own backyard.”) But his radicalism extended to the Middle East. He published Marxist-inflected articles in the pro-Palestinian <em>Journal of Palestine Studies</em> and the far-left <em>MERIP Reports</em>. He even<a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2009/05/my-discontented-pro-palestinian/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">turned up</a> in Beirut in 1974, in the company of his Georgetown mentor, the Palestinian professor Hisham Sharabi, whom Barry candidly <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/2005/01/rabi-death-of-a-teacher/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">described</a> later as “one of the teachers who most influenced me.” “It is no secret,” he <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/breira-pro-and-con/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote</a> in a 1977 letter to COMMENTARY, “that when I was young I was a leftist and anti-Zionist.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time I met Barry in 1979, this was only a few years behind him. But he had already <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/breira-pro-and-con/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">learned</a> “what it’s like to believe in the totalitarian Left, to be misused and disillusioned, to go through difficult internal struggles, and finally to emerge from this dark period. Many of our finest intellectuals and journalists have had similar experiences.” The newly liberated Barry Rubin was about to forge a new persona as a serious researcher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walter Laqueur, the historian and author, had a major influence on Barry in the late 1970s, guiding him to a deeper understanding of the perils of the totalitarian mindset and serving as his model of a contemporary historian. Laqueur had closely dissected the vile ideological excesses of 20th-century Europe, from Nazism to Stalinism. He had written widely on the Holocaust and the Cold War, and had also authored a masterly history of Zionism. Barry’s later work showed the influence of Laqueur’s research agenda, his approachable prose, and his method of scholarly entrepreneurship. “He also taught me,” <a href="http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2010/05/walter-laqueur-intellectual-for-all.html" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote</a> Barry, “that being prolific is not a sin.” In a few cases they collaborated, and one of their joint projects, Barry’s revision and expansion of Laqueur’s <em>Israel-Arab Reader</em>, seems on track to stay in print forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">According to Laqueur, he tried to dissuade Barry from specializing in the Middle East. But the unsettled region excited Barry’s own restless curiosity. Had he stayed on the left, and especially had he been willing to defame Israel, he would have been assured an academic position in the United States. Many radical Jewish academics did just that, and made comfortable careers in Middle Eastern studies. But Barry had progressed, and it left him unemployable. His only <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/The-region-How-the-far-Left-controls-campuses-327416" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">interview</a> for a teaching position “was interrupted by one professor screaming at me, ‘How could you ever possibly represent the narrative of the Palestinian people?’ To which I responded that obviously, I didn’t think I was supposed to represent it, merely teach about it…. I think the problem was my last name.” Barry later wrote <a href="http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2011/04/short-history-of-bizarre-world-of.html" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this</a> about my own <a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/martinkramer/publications/ivory-towers-sand-failure-middle-eastern-studies-america" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">indictment</a> of Middle Eastern studies,<em>Ivory Towers on Sand</em>: “When I first read it, I joked to Martin that it was my life story.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Still, when Barry moved to Israel, in the early 1990s, I was surprised. It wasn’t as though Israel beckoned to him with open arms. Ironically, in Israel, too, Barry’s prospects of finding an academic position were slim: he hadn’t come up through the Israeli system, so he didn’t have a patron. For some years, he moved around Israeli academe in adjunct or research positions, and he did a long stretch at the Begin-Sadat Center (BESA) at Bar-Ilan University. It is to the credit of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya that it ultimately offered him a proper academic appointment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry became best known not for his academic titles, but for his many book titles. The number of these books that appeared under the imprint of first-tier university presses exceeded the production of just about any Israeli academic. Oxford University Press published four of his books: <em>Paved with Good Intentions: The American Experience and Iran; Secrets of State: The State Department and the Struggle over U.S. Foreign Policy; Hating America;</em> and <em>Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography</em>. Harvard University Press published two: <em>Revolution Until Victory? The Politics and History of the PLO</em>and <em>The Transformation of Palestinian Politics: From Revolution to State-building.</em>Yale University Press published two: <em>Israel: An Introduction</em> and, most recently,<em>Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East.</em> Syracuse University Press issued <em>The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict</em>, and Cambridge University Press published <em>The Tragedy of the Middle East</em>. When Barry wrote in a more journalistic style, he placed those books with commercial presses. My personal favorite is his<em>Istanbul Intrigues</em>, a historical study set in the Second World War that reads like a thriller.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At a memorial <a href="http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/memorial-event-dr.-barry-rubin" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">event</a> for Barry held in Washington, Judith Colp Rubin—his devoted wife and occasional co-author—said that Barry would sometimes wonder aloud whether anyone was reading his books. I’m sure he carefully monitored the sales of all his books, and it’s sad to think that they disappointed him. But as a rule, books on the Middle East don’t find large audiences, unless publication neatly coincides with a crisis to which a book is immediately relevant. The closest Barry came was his 1980 <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Paved-with-Good-Intentions-final.pdf" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">book</a> on Iran, <em>Paved with Good Intentions</em> (also the only book by him that I ever <a href="https://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/answer-to-history-by-mohammad-reza-pahlavi-paved-with-good-intentions-by-barry-rubin/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reviewed</a>), which appeared in the midst of the Iran hostage crisis. It was widely and favorably reviewed (<a href="http://www.danielpipes.org/8219/paved-with-good-intentions" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">most prominently</a> by Daniel Pipes in the <em>New York Times Book Review</em>), and it remains his most-cited work (so says Google Scholar).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Barry was usually too prescient to get the timing right: his books often appeared<em>before</em> they became relevant. So it was with his study of Arab liberals, <em>The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East</em>, which preceded the “Arab Spring” by five years. No book came closer to predicting the explosions that eventually rocked the region. “If a large group in the Arab world,” Barry wrote, “whether a majority or sizeable minority, will someday speak and struggle for democracy, the views then expressed could confound all the public statements made in the last half-century about what people in Arab societies think.” Another book, <em>The Truth About Syria</em>, preceded the country’s breakup by three years. “With its mix of competing religious and ethnic groups,” Barry wrote in that book’s short description, “[Syria] is a 72,000-square-mile time bomb waiting to go off.” Contrary to other expert expectations, it did. Barry reached a broader audience through his journalism and blogging, and especially his long-running column in the <em>Jerusalem Post</em>. But he saw his fifteen books as his greater legacy, and one of his last projects was to make all but the newest pair freely <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/pt_free_books/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">available</a> on the web. For students and younger scholars looking for a model of meticulous analysis combined with passionate prose, Barry Rubin’s virtual shelf is an excellent place to start. (It is maintained by the institute he founded, and which is soon to bear his name.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For Barry, the regimes of the Middle East were so many Cubas, deceptively concealing oppression behind a facade of revolution, and seducing gullible Westerners with lies. Why could others not see the “hidden mountain of truth” that seemed so obvious to him? They subscribed to those same radical shibboleths he himself had abandoned. The worst offenders were the denizens of Middle Eastern studies. “I cannot think of a single book of value on any subject regarding the Middle East produced by these hundreds of tenured radicals,” Barry once <a href="http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/04/short-history-of-bizarre-world-of.html" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">opined</a>. It is a harsh verdict, to be sure, but it has the ring of truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last decade, Barry reacquainted himself with America. Much of what he saw disturbed him. During a sabbatical stretch spent in the Washington area with Judy and the children, he saw how the educational curriculum had been emptied of any pride in America’s great achievements. To Barry’s mind, Barack Obama personified this abandonment of the American ethos, and in his posthumously published jeremiad against the left, <em>Silent Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance</em>, he staked out his position clearly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet he took heart from everyday Americans, such as the Civil War reenactors whose ranks he enthusiastically joined (on the Union side). Barry would go off almost annually to live for several days in tents with these history buffs—small contractors, office and construction workers, mechanics—and there he rediscovered the spirit of America that he so admired. They must have wondered at this eccentric man, and no more so than when Israel’s then-ambassador, Michael Oren, visited Gettysburg with an entourage for the 150th anniversary of the battle, and suddenly <a href="http://www.israellycool.com/2013/07/10/only-not-in-israel-the-visit/" style="color: #054f87; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">recognized</a> and embraced a grizzled Union soldier. It was Barry in authentic uniform and kit, attending his very last reenactment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Barry’s personal friendship, once given, was generous and enduring, and his love for Israel was unconditional. Born and raised in a cynical city at a troubled time, he embarked on a quest for a cause worthy of his fierce loyalty, and for people who would love him for who and what he was. After much trial and error, he found his place amidst his ancestral people, his true friends, and his adoring family. “I think it is likely that I will never leave Israel again,” he wrote to me during his illness, “but then with a country we love so much that’s not so bad. I am glad to have participated with you and so many others in trying to restore and preserve our nation, the miracle that we have made and has been given to us—with all of its flaws—after so many centuries of yearning.” Barry Rubin’s own improbable journey home was one of the more amazing small miracles of which Israel is the sum.</span><br />
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-28596644685429517992014-12-25T20:33:00.001+02:002014-12-25T20:33:25.522+02:00Make Your Tax-Deductible Donation to Continue Barry Rubin's Work Before the End of the Year<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">I know Barry would be proud as to how GLORIA, the research institute he founded at the Interdisciplinary Center and which I always referred to as the “other woman in his life,” continues to thrive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" target="_blank">Global Research in International Affairs (</a></span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;" target="_blank">GLORIA</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" target="_blank">) Center</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">is now under the directorship of Dr. Jonathan Spyer--Barry’s longtime deputy and hand-picked successor--who has reported from across the region, including several trips to war-torn Syria. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Dr. Spyer is recognized as one of the world’s leading Middle East analysts, appearing on and writing for major media outlets as well as doing speaking events worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/category/meria-journal-meria-journal/number-3-fall-2014/">Middle East Review of International Affairs</a> (MERIA)</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> which Barry pioneered in 1997 as the first online Middle East journal, maintains its high level of scholarship, with a circulation of over 25,000. In addition, GLORIA continues to publish </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftur20/current"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Turkish Studies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">, founded by Barry and listed in the prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/pt_free_books/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Thirteen of Barry’s books are available now for free</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"> on the GLORIA website, including </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/The-Arab-States-and-the-Palestine-Conflict4.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The Arab States and the Palestine Conflict</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">, </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Truth-About-Syria.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The Truth About Syria</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">, and more.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">In addition to these projects, Barry’s longtime dream of helping develop the next generation of Middle East scholars has become a reality. In October, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi became the first recipient of the Rubin Fellowship. Al-Tamimi has already emerged as one of the world’s leading experts on the Islamic State (IS), recently testifying before the British parliament on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">As Barry’s widow and co-author, I ask for your help in ensuring the GLORIA Center continues these ongoing activities. Funds are especially needed to expand the Rubin Fellowship. Please consider making a donation in Barry’s memory and for the values for which he dedicated his life. <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/donate-now/" target="_blank">Click here to </a></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/donate-now/" target="_blank">make your tax-deductible donation before the end of the year from the United States, the UK, or Israel.</a></span></div>
Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-53643291839553344862014-12-02T11:05:00.000+02:002014-12-02T20:15:57.877+02:00Help GLORIA to Continue Prof. Barry Rubin’s Work<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The late Barry Rubin and wife Judith Colp Rubin</td></tr>
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anniversary of the death of my husband, Professor Barry Rubin, approaches, I am
reaching out to you, his loyal readers, to help continue his important work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Barry was one of the most
prolific Middle East scholars of our time. He believed strongly in fighting for
the security of America and Israel and worked tirelessly for this cause,
literally up to his death. Even while hooked up to an IV dispensing chemo,
Barry was dictating his famous Rubin Report to his assistant. He also finished
three books, which were published posthumously: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300140908/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0300140908&linkCode=as2&tag=gc06f-20">Nazis,
Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Yale, 2014, co-authored with Wolfgang G. Schwanitz), </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062231766/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0062231766&linkCode=as2&tag=httpgloriaidc-20">Silent
Revolution: How the Left Rose to Political Power and Cultural Dominance</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(Harper Collins, 2014), and </span><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415859394/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Military History of the Modern Middle East</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> (Routledge,
2015).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I know Barry would be
proud as to how GLORIA, the research institute he founded at the
Interdisciplinary Center and which I always referred to as the “other woman in
his life,” continues to thrive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The <a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" target="_blank"> </a></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" target="_blank">Global Research in International Affairs (</a></span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;" target="_blank">GLORIA</a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/" target="_blank">) Center</a> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">is now under the
directorship of Dr. Jonathan Spyer--Barry’s longtime deputy and hand-picked
successor--who has reported from across the region, including several trips to war-torn
Syria. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Dr. Spyer is recognized as one of the world’s leading Middle East analysts,
appearing on and writing for major media outlets as well as doing speaking
events worldwide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/category/meria-journal-meria-journal/number-3-fall-2014/">Middle
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which Barry pioneered in 1997 as the first online Middle East journal, maintains
its high level of scholarship, with a circulation of
over 25,000. In addition, GLORIA continues to publish </span><a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ftur20/current"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Turkish Studies</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,
founded by Barry and listed in the prestigious Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/pt_free_books/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thirteen
of Barry’s books are available now for free</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> on the GLORIA website,
including </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/The-Arab-States-and-the-Palestine-Conflict4.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Arab States and the Palestine Conflict</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/The-Truth-About-Syria.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The
Truth About Syria</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, and more.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In addition to these
projects, Barry’s longtime dream of helping develop the next generation of Middle
East scholars has become a reality. In October, Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi became
the first recipient of the Rubin Fellowship. Al-Tamimi has already emerged as
one of the world’s leading experts on the Islamic State (IS), recently testifying
before the British parliament on the subject.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As Barry’s widow and
co-author, I ask for your help in ensuring the GLORIA Center continues these ongoing
activities. Funds are especially needed to expand the Rubin Fellowship. Please
consider making a donation in Barry’s memory and for the values for which he
dedicated his life. </span><a href="http://www.gloria-center.org/donate-now/"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Make your
tax-deductible donation today from the United States, the UK, or Israel.</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-10190868166783007302014-12-01T13:26:00.002+02:002014-12-01T13:26:48.716+02:00Book Review: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“The enemy of your enemy is your friend,”
wrote the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, about his
reverence for Nazi Germany that had fought his enemies, the (British)
colonialists and the Zionists. While this may have been an understatement, it is
common knowledge that the Palestinian Arab leader ruined his reputation by
collaborating with the Nazis. The exact nature and extent of his collaboration
and the solidity of its ideological foundations, however, were not fully
explored until the publication of this study. It is to the credit of these two
fine scholars, the late Israeli historian Barry Rubin and his colleague
Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, that they discovered documentary proof in German,
Yugoslav, Israeli, British and Russian archives of how the Grand Mufti made
maximal efforts to provide the Nazis—who were notoriously short of allies—with
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Goebbels and Himmler were grateful to the
Grand Mufti for his support. With his usual self-gratulatory tone, Goebbels
wrote in his diary that al-Husaini was “intelligent and had good judgment.”
With the help of the Mufti, the Nazis hoped that they could win the support of
four hundred million Muslims. As late as May, 8, 1944, Himmler gave the Mufti
an entire afternoon of his precious time. During this meeting the two men
discussed horses, Arabic poetry and the achievements of the Muslim units that
the Mufti had helped enlist and which fought for the Third Reich. These
included the Hanzar (Khanjar) division which “had participated in the murder of
thousands of Bosnian Jews, Christian Serbs and Roma (“Gypsies”).”...<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">Professor
Johannes Houwink ten Cate, co-author of “</span><a href="http://www.worldcat.org/title/in-het-puin-van-het-getto-het-concentratiekamp-warschau/oclc/861000072&referer=brief_results"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">In het puin van het getto: het concentratiekamp Warschau</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";">,” Jewish Political Studies Review
25(Fall </span><a href="http://jcpa.org/article/book-reviews-jpsr-fall-2013/#br1"><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">2013</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">)3-4, 26 November 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Islamists and the Making of the Modern Middle East, New Haven & London:
Yale University Press, 2014, xiii plus 340 pp.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">“The enemy of your enemy is your friend,” wrote the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, al-Hajj Amin al-Husaini, about his reverence for Nazi
Germany that had fought his enemies, the (British) colonialists and the
Zionists. While this may have been an understatement, it is common knowledge
that the Palestinian Arab leader ruined his reputation by collaborating with
the Nazis. The exact nature and extent of his collaboration and the solidity of
its ideological foundations, however, were not fully explored until the
publication of this study. It is to the credit of these two fine scholars, the
late Israeli historian Barry Rubin and his colleague Wolfgang G. Schwanitz,
that they discovered documentary proof in German, Yugoslav, Israeli, British
and Russian archives of how the Grand Mufti made maximal efforts to provide the
Nazis—who were notoriously short of allies—with as much assistance as he could.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Goebbels and Himmler were grateful to the Grand Mufti
for his support. With his usual self-gratulatory tone, Goebbels wrote in his
diary that al-Husseini was “intelligent and had good judgment.” With the help
of the Mufti, the Nazis hoped that they could win the support of four hundred
million Muslims. As late as May, 8, 1944, Himmler gave the Mufti an entire
afternoon of his precious time. During this meeting the two men discussed
horses, Arabic poetry and the achievements of the Muslim units that the Mufti had
helped enlist and which fought for the Third Reich. These included the Hanzar
(Khanjar) division which “had participated in the murder of thousands of
Bosnian Jews, Christian Serbs and Roma (“Gypsies”).”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">After the defeat of the Third Reich, al-Husseini wanted
to persuade the world that he had collaborated out of opportunistic motives,
essentially because other Middle Eastern leaders accommodated the British and
French colonial powers, and Nazi Germany fought against those countries. During
the war, however, and especially before Nazi audiences, al-Husseini quoted the
Quran as proof that the Jews were terrorists, the bitterest enemies of the
Muslims, and haters of Muhammad. Second on his list of worst enemies were the
British. The Mufti added that he did his utmost to convince Muslims to join the
Waffen-SS, the elite army of Nazi Germany. Thousands followed the call of the
Mufti, although the contingent of Dutchmen outnumbered the Muslims among the
foreign volunteers in the SS. According to the Mufti, Nazi Germany was the
natural ally of the Muslims. He added that Germany was fighting against “World
Jewry,” England and Communism which oppressed forty million Muslims and wanted
to destroy Islam. However, there was much more to his collaboration. According
to the Mufti, the most important feature of their alliance was the fact that
Nazism and Islamism shared a common ideological basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">The title of this seminal book, Nazis, Islamists and
the Making of the Modern Middle East is appropriate because Rubin and Schwanitz
document these ideological similarities. Indeed, Rubin and Schwanitz not only
have written a study of the collaboration of the Mufti with Nazi Germany but
also a study of the “making of the modern Middle East.” Both Islam and Nazism
preached the necessity of a community living in a single state under a single,
all-powerful leader [i.e., Das Führer Prinzip]. Furthermore, redemptive
anti-Semitism was central to the worldview of the Nazi religion. Both Islam and
Nazism glorified armed conflict and martyrdom as well as the notion of the
common good (as opposed to individual liberty), the family, motherhood,
physical labor and hatred of Jews. According to the Mufti, an Allied victory
would mean the triumph of the Jews and a disaster for Muslims and Islam. If
Germany and Islam would win the war, the Arabs would be united under their new
leader, namely the Grand Mufti, and the Jews would be destroyed. Despite the
setback of the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, Haj Amin al-Husseini remained
the historic Palestinian Arab leader until Yasser Arafat succeeded him in 1968.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">Rubin and Schwanitz have produced an extremely
well-researched and documented book, both on the Mufti and on the common
ideological ground shared by Nazi doctrine and political Islam in its radical
form. However, some of the authors’ assertions are not entirely convincing.
Along with Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, they state that the Mufti visited Nazi
death camps. Nazi leaders usually did not show these camps to foreign
sympathizers. They also note that the Mufti supported an “accelerated policy of
genocide that the Axis’ partner intended to spread to the Middle East” (160).
Had the Nazis been victorious in the Middle East, it is plausible that in
planning the most universal of genocides (to paraphrase Professor Yehuda
Bauer), they would have murdered the Jews there as well, since that was their
policy toward all Jews, even in territories that they had not yet conquered.
However, it is not likely that Hitler and his henchmen needed the support of the
Mufti in making their genocidal decision to kill the Jews. In their discussion
of the role of Haj Amin in the decision-making process of implementing the
Holocaust, Rubin and Schwanitz are skating on thin ice. They repeat the common
error of over-estimating the importance of the Wannsee Conference (20 January
1942). In fact, 1,100,000 million Jews had perished prior to that meeting. In
addition, they appear to have ignored much of the recent scholarship on this
decision-making process, particularly the works of Christopher R. Browning on
the origins of the Final Solution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="PT-BR" style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR;">In any case, the above is but a minor criticism. The
main point is that Rubin and Schwanitz have provided a work based upon
excellent original research and have produced a well-written and seminal book
on the collaborationist policies of the Grand Mufti, who strove to become the
most important Arab leader of his time. It is always important to remember that
it was the Mufti himself who emphasized the ideological common ground of Nazism
and radical political Islamism. Rubin and Schwanitz have demonstrated its
continuity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-75394987237931739272014-08-06T14:39:00.000+03:002014-08-06T14:39:17.579+03:00The Logic of the Middle East, a prescient analysis by Prof. Barry Rubin<div style="font-size: 16px; margin: 0px;">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>In light of the current situation in Israel and Gaza, the GLORIA Center is reposting Prof. Rubin's prescient analysis of the likely situation that would emerge in Gaza following the Disengagement. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px;"><i>This article is, if anything, even more relevant today than when it was first published in 2005:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>By Barry Rubin</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">August 2005</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> It cannot be repeated often enough that Middle East politics are not like those of other places. They make sense once one understands the region’s history, politics, and institutions, but they defy the logic that uninformed or semi-informed outsiders expect.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> Consider, as the most recent example, Palestinian politics and the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Here is what might be expected to happen:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> “This is a step forward by Israel showing that this country is ready to make peace,” the Palestinian leader would tell his people. “We must now make the most of this opportunity in two ways.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“First, we must encourage Israel to agree to a comprehensive deal by proving to its leaders and people that we really do accept their country’s existence and security. The best way to do this is by stopping all incitement to hate Israel and portray it as illegitimate in our media and textbooks, while showing our determination to prevent terror attacks. We will demand all of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip in a Palestinian state but we will simultaneously show we are true nationalists by making it clear that all Palestinian refugees should be resettled in our own state in order to make it prosperous and successful.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Second, we must show the world that we are worthy and ready for a state by governing the Gaza Strip well. We will put all security forces under political control and disband the extremist militias. A stable government will be established that will not permit anarchy. We will fight corruption and use the aid money well. And we will show our commitment to democracy. We may not succeed completely but everyone will know that we have done our best and made real progress. ”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Critical in this effort is to show our people that this great day was brought about not by murdering Israeli civilians but as an outcome of the negotiations process begun with the Oslo agreement.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Indeed, many people in the West no doubt think that this is what already is happening. But what, in fact, is the most likely course of events in the Palestinian debate and politics?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--There will be no decline in incitement or change in the public rhetoric of Palestinian officials speaking to their own people. Thus, of course, Israeli suspicions regarding their intentions will be reinforced.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--The Palestinian movement will continue to be oriented toward conquest and revenge rather than nation-state nationalism.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--No stable government with real control over the territory will be created in the Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian Authority will not even try too hard to do that. On the contrary, it will ignore the Road Map’s provisions about stopping terrorism and disarming radical groups and simply keep insisting on getting a state right away without preconditions or concessions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--The Israeli withdrawal will be claimed as a victory for terrorism (under the phrase revolutionary violence) thus laying the basis for more of the same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--Palestinian security forces will stand by most of the time and do nothing as not only Hamas and Islamic Jihad but also Fatah gunmen try to attack Israel. Then the Palestinian leadership will scream when Israel retaliates. The big losers here will be the Palestinians themselves since this continuing war will destroy any chance for development.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--Anti-corruption efforts will remain tiny even in the context of modest expectations. The new aid money being offered by the West will disappear without a trace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">--The Palestinian leadership will do everything possible to avoid power-sharing, wider democracy, or fair elections. There is some good reason for this since Hamas will benefit the most if people are given a choice but a large part of the reason for that situation is precisely the current leadership’s failure to do more for the masses’ welfare.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In short, there is every reason to believe that the Palestinian leadership and movements will throw away this opportunity. If you don’t think so, let’s talk about it again in six months’ time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Does this analysis mean Israel should not withdraw? Actually, one could argue the exact opposite. For if nothing is going to change any way why should it be bound to the status quo? Take away the excuse of “occupation” and let the world—and far more importantly the Palestinians themselves—see the real cause of their problems. Let Israel determine its best deployments and use of security resources rather than have to be permanently tied down to being in the whole Gaza Strip.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Of course, one should quickly add, that Israel largely withdrew from the territory eleven years ago when it was turned over to the tender mercies of Yasir Arafat. The presence of 7500 settlers and Israeli control over certain roads had very little effect on the Palestinian situation there. On my many trips to the Gaza Strip in the second half of the 1990s, I never saw Israeli settlers, soldiers or road blocks. It was like being in Jordan or Lebanon, a Palestinian state in all but name.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman,serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The idea at the time was that he would have to deal with schools and sewage, jobs and housing. The problem was that he and his colleagues had no interest in anything other than fighting Israel. Some of his top successors have better intentions but lack the power or determination to do better. As a substitute, they will complain about inadequate international support, blame Israel for everything, and urge more militancy. Which side will be better off after the withdrawal? Watch the material realities, not the rhetoric to find out.</span></span></div>
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-24349454187525535752014-04-06T11:03:00.004+03:002014-04-06T11:03:58.376+03:00Washington Institute Memorial Event: Prof. Barry Rubin<div align="center">
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Washington Institute director of research <strong>Dr. Patrick Clawson</strong>, Institute Program
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Schenker</strong>, Middle East scholar and coauthor of Barry's final
book <strong>Dr. Wolfgang
Schwanitz</strong>, and<strong>
Lee Smith</strong> of the <em>Weekly
Standard</em> and the Hudson Institute. The program will include a
special written contribution by Professor <strong>Walter Laqueur</strong>.<br />
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A brilliant scholar, prolific author, and fearless advocate for historical
accuracy, Dr. Rubin had a long association with The Washington Institute,
serving as a senior fellow from 1988-1993 and as a visiting fellow frequently
thereafter. He was the author of numerous Institute studies on a broad cross
section of subjects including Arab-Israeli relations, Syria, Jordan, and the
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East Review of International Affairs</em>. His many books include <em>The Truth about Syria</em>
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Barry Rubin's 30-day memorial and the unveiling of the gravestone will be held
on <b>Thursday, March 6, 2014, 11:00am at the Kiryat Shaul Cemetery in Tel
Aviv, Israel</b>. All are welcome to attend. Please notify us at <a href="mailto:info@gloria-center.org">info@gloria-center.org</a> if you plan to
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Rubin Centerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06629522573582236819noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359330079121990828.post-3722135343579039642014-02-19T18:44:00.002+02:002014-02-19T18:44:49.387+02:00Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu Sends Condolences on Barry Rubin's Passing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Prof. Rubin's passing, "Barry was a prolific writer, historian and analyst who dedicated both his intellect and his energies to the challenges facing the Middle East... His contribution to the public discourse in both Israel and the United States will serve as a proud legacy...."</div>
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