The First Jihadi Attack on the West That No One Noticed

There was an earlier attack on a democracy most people never recognized as one. Its victims got filed under “unrest” instead of war.

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They Say Gas The Jews, But What They ACTUALLY Mean is... | Einat Wilf on Westsplaining

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How Did Arafat View the Oslo Accords?

From Former Arafat Advisor, Bassam Abu Sharif, a MEMRI special dispatch

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Introductory essay

Land for Peace = War by Richard Landes

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Oslo's Misreading of an Honor-Shame Culture by Richard Landes

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Emotional Nakba by Richard Landes

Why the Arab World Is Lost in an Emotional Nakba, and How We Keep It There By ignoring the honor-shame dynamic in Arab political culture, is the West.

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"Land for Peace" Means War by Richard Landes

An excerpt from my book "Can 'The Whole World' be Wrong?

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Book Review

The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace

review by Alex Ryvchin on Einat Wilf and Adi Schwartz's book.

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Oslo at 33 An Agreement Nobody Owns by Sagiv Steinberg

The frameworks now being built for Gaza rest on the same flawed premise as the Oslo Accords.

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The First Jihadi Attack on the West That No One Noticed

There was an earlier attack on a democracy most people never recognized as one. Its victims got filed under “unrest” instead of war.

The 1990s were a genuinely hopeful decade. The Soviet Union had just collapsed, and there was real optimism that peaceful, negotiated solutions could resolve even the world's most stubborn conflicts.