The Unmaking of the Middle East

by Salt, Jeremy

• ISBN13: 9780520261709
• ISBN10: 0520261704
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-10
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: "Why do they hate us?" Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle East today by chronicling the long and bloody history of Western intervention in Arab lands. In lucid detail, he examines the major events that have shaped the region--ranging from the French in Algeria and the British in Egypt in the nineteenth century to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to the continuing war in Iraq. Linking all of these together, Salt paints a damning picture of a sustained campaign by Western powers to dominate the Middle East by whatever means necessary. Throughout, he emphasizes the human cost of the policies put in place to preserve "Western interests" or in the name of bringing civilization, democracy, or freedom to the region. Making use of extensive research in U.S. and British archives that reveals what politicians were deciding behind closed doors, and why, this isa book that will change the way we see the Middle East.

Author Biography

Jeremy Salt teaches in the Department of Political Science at Bilkent University in Ankara and is author of Imperialism, Evangelism, and the Ottoman Armenians, 1878-1896.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
”Why Do They Hate Us?“	p. 11
Civilization and Its Contradictions	p. 13
Science and Barbarism	p. 33
Sacred Trusts	p. 47
Ottoman Breakdown	p. 49
Exit the Sharif	p. 79
Small Wars in Iraq	p. 91
Double Colonialism in Palestine	p. 121
Civil War along the Potomac	p. 149
The American Ascendancy	p. 163
The ”Tripartite Aggression“	p. 165
My Enemy's Special Friend	p. 184
LBJ's Other War	p. 211
Disabling Lebanon	p. 238
The Bush Wars	p. 271
Into the Gulf	p. 273
George the Son	p. 317
The Long Campaign	p. 340
Notes	p. 359
Bibliography	p. 417
Index	p. 443
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