The volatility of Muslim and Middle Eastern politics has made these
interrelated topics an overriding preoccupation of world and
especially U.S. politics. Perhaps no region of the world has ever
so dominated the American public discourse as the Middle East does
today. As Daniel Pipes shows, this results mainly, but not
exclusively, from the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the ensuing
war on terrorism. Other sources of trouble include militant Islam,
Muslims in the West, the Arab-Israeli conflict, the Iraq situation,
relations with Saudi Arabia, the price of oil and gas, and U.S.
policy toward all these issues. These are the central themes of the
roughly one hundred essays in Daniel Pipes' Miniatures: Views of
Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics.As Pipes notes, the Islamist
war against America preceded the events of 9/11. Nevertheless,
response to the earlier attacks had been inconsistent and somewhat
nonchalant. Pipes shows how the State Department's annual report on
Patterns of Global Terrorism veers into unreliability and even
falsehood. He explains the problem in George W. Bush trying to
decide what is true Islam and what not, in U.S. academics hiding
the true meaning of the word "jihad," and in seventh-grade
textbooks proselytizing for Islam. Pipes demonstrates that many
seemingly devout Islamists are in fact impious frauds. When it
comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, Pipes indicates how the failure
of the Oslo process could be discerned as early as 1994 and he
shows how Yasir Arafat speaks one way to Arabs and another way to
Israelis.This important collection, by one of the foremost experts
in the field, presents original insights, accessibly written for
Middle East specialists, political scientists, policymakers,
journalists, and the interested public.
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