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Jeremy Salt has taught at the University of Melbourne, Bosporus University (Istanbul) and Bilkent University (Ankara), specialising in the modern history of the Middle East. His publications include "The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands" (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008.) His latest book is "The Last Ottoman Wars. The Human Cost 1877-1923" (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2019).
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, December 16, 2020 The Assassin's Creed: Murder As Israeli State Policy
If our dreams for Zionism are not to end in the smoke of assassins' pistols and our labor for its future to produce only a new set of gangsters---many like myself will have to reconsider the position we have maintained for so long in the past." --- Winston Churchill, November, 1944, from his address to the House of Commons on the murder of Britain's Resident Minister in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, by tw
(4 comments) SHARE Monday, September 14, 2020 Why The 'Journalists' Don't Like Julian
Why is it that so many journalists have turned their backs on Julian Assange? Why do so many abuse him instead of defending him? He is, after all, a world historic figure who will be remembered centuries from now in the same way we remember Voltaire, Victor Hugo and Thomas Paine.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, July 21, 2020 Panic and the Pandemic 'Down Under': The Ultimate Unseen Enemy
The unseen enemy has been a fact of modern life since the 1950s but at least the red under the bed could be seen if found. COVID-19 is the ultimate unseen enemy, because it literally cannot be seen except through a microscope and noon knows where it is and when it will strike.
The panic generated by the spread of the virus is completely disproportionate to the risk of dying from it.