{"title":"A reply by David Tal","authors":"D. Tal","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2203572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2203572","url":null,"abstract":"It seems Professor Petersen was not particularly fond of the book I authored, and while he is entitled to his opinion, I find myself perplexed by his review. Although he references my name as the author and the title of the book he purports to critique matches my own, the content of his review bears no resemblance to the work I penned. I am inclined to believe that Professor Petersen did not misinterpret my book, but rather, his conspicuous omission of any reference to the central theme – exploring the genesis and evolution of the unique bond between Israel and the United States – leads me to surmise that he may have inadvertently reviewed an entirely different book. my book delves into the intricate elements and concepts that have shaped the special relationship between Israel and the United States, with a historical lens that traces its roots to the era preceding President Woodrow Wilson. By adopting a longue durée approach, the book enables readers to discern the various undercurrents and connective threads that have guided the trajectory of this alliance over the years. Regrettably, Professor Petersen seemed to overlook this perspective and failed to recognize the unifying thread woven throughout the book. For instance, the Anglo-American relationship is of marginal relevance in my work, and the extent of coverage it receives is commensurate with its significance to the Israeli-American alliance. Yet, the book that Professor Peterson reviewed led him to lament that the author displayed ‘scant concern for the Anglo-American relationship [...] opting for an incredibly detailed depiction of American policy and the prevailing circumstances in Israel’. Professor Petersen’s discontent stemmed from the fact that the book he read delved extensively into ‘American policy and realities on the ground in Israel’, while allocating minimal attention to the Anglo-American relationship. It was at this juncture that I began to suspect Professor Petersen had reviewed a book other than my own, as my work is devoted exclusively to the Israeli-US relationship, making it entirely logical to provide ‘an incredibly detailed description of American policy and realities on the ground in Israel’. As I continued reading his review, my conviction that Professor Petersen had indeed read a different book grew stronger, with the increasing mentions of subjects that were tangential or irrelevant to my book’s central theme. And these led me to realize one more thing. Professor Petersen falls into the category of reviewers who don’t critique a book per se, but rather propose what they would have preferred to see within its pages. In addition to mentioning components that bear little relevance to the book’s primary theme, he raises issues that he believes should have been incorporated, instead of the subjects the author deliberately chose to include. Consequently, Professor Petersen’s disappointment stems from the scarcity of references to Anglo-American relations, as well as h","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48196390","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zionism and the Hebrew Bible: from religious holiness to national sanctity","authors":"Yitzhak Conforti","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2204516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2204516","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46128880","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Internal colonization, political geography and security in the Ottoman Eastern Provinces (1895–1899)","authors":"Ilkay Yılmaz","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2203920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2203920","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44644658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Limits of economic modernization: smuggling versus monopolies in modern Turkey","authors":"Murat Metinsoy","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2204429","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2204429","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43600676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors influencing the location of the early Zionist settlements in Ottoman Palestine: 1880–1915","authors":"G. D. Sack","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2198223","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2198223","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45476393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An alternative approach to total economy of the late Ottoman Empire","authors":"Somer Alp Şimşeker, Zeynep Sabancı","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2198222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2198222","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49039983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Süreyya Ağaoğlu and the emerging liberal order in early Cold War Turkey","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2195636","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2195636","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42510936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Syria 2011–2013: Revolution and Tyranny before the Mayhem","authors":"Eyal Zisser","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2198224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2198224","url":null,"abstract":"at the end of January 2011, a few days before the fall of Husni Mubarak’s rule in egypt, but when it was already clear that his fate was decided and that his days were numbered, syrian President Bashar al-assad gave an interview to the Wall Street Journal in which he spoke for the first time about the fateful events in tunisia and egypt. Bashar reassured his interviewers that, ‘if you want to talk about tunisia and egypt, we are outside of this; at the end we are not tunisians and we are not egyptians.’ Bashar added and explained:","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47105628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Foundations of a geopolitical entity - the Gaza Strip 1947–1950","authors":"A. Golan","doi":"10.1080/00263206.2023.2195635","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2023.2195635","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47118,"journal":{"name":"Middle Eastern Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48220805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}