Historic Palestine: What you need to know!
I recently critiqued an article that used the term “historic Palestine” nine times in 21 pages without offering a definition even once. It is taken for granted that the reader would know what this...
I recently critiqued an article that used the term “historic Palestine” nine times in 21 pages without offering a definition even once. It is taken for granted that the reader would know what this...
Asher Susser is a very impressive man. Now professor emeritus of Middle East history at Tel Aviv University, I took an online course from him called The Emergence of the Modern Middle East. I...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published May 17, 2017 · Last modified May 21, 2017
Leaders have legacies; the rest of us have lives. And normalization is a death sentence for some. Trump may be making his opening gambit for a Nobel Prize. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published November 26, 2016 · Last modified June 21, 2021
We will probably never know the whole story behind the 200+ fires that set Israel ablaze over the past 3-4 days. But pyro-terrorism should not surprise us. We were forewarned. Long ago. Fire as...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published November 2, 2016 · Last modified November 17, 2016
Here is a unique proposal – become the newest indigenous people in the world. In other words, Palestinian Arabs, you can write your own future. I dare you to. Or, you can continue to...
It is easy to look back and say that decisions taken right after the 6-Day War were ill-guided and started us down a slippery slope to disaster regardless of whether you are a hawk...
Politically and Diplomatically Speaking
by Sheri Oz · Published May 7, 2016 · Last modified August 3, 2018
I raised a few eyebrows when I posted a link to Bassem Eid’s new article, saying I endorse it. Friends wondered what had happened to me since I generally raise issues about why we...
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