The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East
by Sieff, MartinFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-02-01
Publisher(s): Regnery Pub
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Summary
Combine religion, race, the Cold War, America's enemies, and a history of colonialism, and you've got a breeding ground for the most virulent strains of politically correct mythology, distortions, and cover-ups. Welcome to the Middle East.
Author Biography
Martin Sieff is the managing editor of international affairs for United Press International, and he reported from the Middle East for forty years
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Revealing the Truth about the World's Most Politically Incorrect Region | p. 1 |
| Bring Back the Ottoman Empire | p. 5 |
| The Middle East a century ago | |
| Ottomans exit, instability and strife enter | |
| The secrets of Ottoman success | |
| World War I could have skipped the Middle East | |
| Gallipoli: Underestimating the Turks | |
| Europe's "sick man" has some teeth | |
| The Arab-Israeli Conflict: It's Not Israel's Fault | p. 25 |
| The creation of Israel: An anti-Muslim U.S. conspiracy? | |
| How it all began | |
| The rise of Haj Amin al-Husseini | |
| Churchill in Cairo: 1921 | |
| Emir Abdullah of Transjordan | |
| Herbert Dowbiggin: Unlikely prophet | |
| How British imperialist weakness sparked the Arab-Israeli conflict | |
| The Hebrew Bible: A book of war | |
| The true story of Israel's creation | |
| The Mess in Mesopotamia | p. 49 |
| Just like today: A bad beginning | |
| Democracy in Iraq: 1925-1958 | |
| A Jewish base for the Allies | |
| Where America went wrong | |
| After Saddam: "Better Tiberius" | |
| Banking on a bank swindler | |
| Birth of the Iraqi insurrection | |
| The insurgents: Not just a few troublemakers | |
| Bombing the Golden Mosque: The point of no return | |
| It isn't a civil war; it's a splinter war | |
| Why the surge couldn't tame Baghdad | |
| The Truth about Islam: Radical Islam Isn't Ancient (Which Makes It More Dangerous) | p. 77 |
| The wisdom of Prince Turki | |
| The cycles of Arab history | |
| The Middle East gets religion: 1977-1980 | |
| Iran | p. 89 |
| The Persian Empire: When Iran was good | |
| Clash of empires: U.S. vs. Britain | |
| Liberal busybodies spark the Islamic Revolution | |
| Ayatollah Khomeini: The fruit of American meddling | |
| Carter and the hostage crisis | |
| Post-revolution Iran | |
| Moderation (relatively speaking) in Iran | |
| Democracy's bitter gift: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | |
| Iran on borrowed time | |
| The Israeli-Arab Wars: 1947-1973 | p. 103 |
| Death almost at birth | |
| The tide turns | |
| Who's a Palestinian? | |
| The real Yasser Arafat | |
| Egypt's fight to destroy Israel | |
| The Soviet Union vs. Israel | |
| The miraculous victory | |
| Results of the Six-Day War | |
| Nixon: Israel's best friend | |
| 1973: The Israelis mess up big | |
| Results of the 1973 war | |
| The Saudis Are Part of the Solution, Not the Problem | p. 135 |
| The enemy of my enemy is my friend | |
| Michael Moore's mania: The Saudis were behind September 11 | |
| Why separation of mosque and state is folly | |
| How to fight Muslim terrorists: Build walls and monitor the mosques | |
| The Saudis and Arafat: From appeasement to realism | |
| Understanding the Saudis | |
| The Arab revolt that worked | |
| The founding father | |
| King Faisal and the oil weapon | |
| Saudi Arabia's three threats | |
| Middle East Wars and Peace: 1975-2007 | p. 157 |
| Arabs can fight | |
| The Ba'ath Party's socialist roots | |
| Arab tyrants: Assad and Saddam | |
| Ford's Middle East successes | |
| Yitzhak Rabin: The dove who armed Israel | |
| Did Jimmy Carter really bring peace to the Middle East? | |
| Clinton: Carter all over again | |
| The History of September 11 | p. 185 |
| Clinton's team missed the al Qaeda threat | |
| Bush drops the ball on al Qaeda too | |
| Heroes and lessons | |
| The Saudis weren't complicit in the attacks | |
| Why did it happen? | |
| Peace in the Middle East: What Works, and What Doesn't | p. 195 |
| Hope at the end of the millennium | |
| They are here to stay | |
| Arab democracy = extremist rule | |
| Why solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict won't solve the problems | |
| The American pipe dream: A world without oil | |
| Good fences make good neighbors | |
| The Saudi solution | |
| A safer Middle East | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 215 |
| Index | p. 217 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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