
Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East
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A different strain of political correctness has seeped into some minds on the right -- most notably the Bush administration, which, so ready to buy into the egalitarian myths we are all taught, believed that Western-style democracy could flourish anywhere. Now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Middle East, veteran Middle East correspondent Martin Sieff puts the lie to all these myths and clichés, giving you everything you need to know about the region to understand its past, its present, and its possible future.
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- Intro
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - BRING BACK THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- 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
- Chapter 2 - THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
- 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
- Chapter 3 - THE MESS IN MESOPOTAMIA
- 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
- Chapter 4 - THE TRUTH ABOUT ISLAM
- The wisdom of Prince Turki
- The cycles of Arab history
- The Middle East gets religion: 1977-1980
- Chapter 5 - IRAN
- 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
- Chapter 6 - THE ISRAELI-ARAB WARS 1947-1973
- 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
- Chapter 7 - THE SAUDIS ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION, NOT THE PROBLEM
- 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
- Saudi Arabia's three threats
- Chapter 8 - MIDDLE EAST WARS AND PEACE 1975-2007
- 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
- Chapter 9 - THE HISTORY OF SEPTEMBER 11
- 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?
- Chapter 10 - PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
- 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
- Acknowledgements
- INDEX
- Copyright Page
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