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JERUSALEM Israeli soldiers beat to death a 15 year old Palestinian youth in the Gaza Strip and his burial yesterday turned into a violent protest in which troops shot and wounded four Arabs. U.N. and Arab reports said...
...Israeli soldiers. The apparent aim was not just to punish specific troublemakers but to terrorize the population into submission. Said Shamir: "Our task now is to re-create the barrier of fear between Palestinians and the Israeli military, and once again put the fear of death into the Arabs of the areas so as to deter them from attacking us anymore." Until a renewed outburst of protests in the West Bank and Gaza at week's end that, according to Arab sources, left 15 injured by live ammunition as well as rubber bullets, the policy had brought a measure...
Pipes says that Mylroie's research is significant because it refutes arguments which contend that American attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli crisis cycle through four-year periods corresponding to American presidential administrations. Mylroie has found that the U.S. alternates between an extremely pro-Israeli position and a stance which takes into account the demands of Arab countries and Israel alike. "She offers a more complex and more convincing pattern," Pipes says...
...accomplish this broad-ranging research on Middle East issues and policies, Mylroie has had to travel extensively. She has visited the region five times over the last decade, and her itinerary includes the United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Sudan, and Cyprus. Last summer, she ventured to Iraq and Egypt to do research for an article examining the Egyptian position on the Iran-Iraq...
Mylroie, who says she has enjoyed teaching undergraduates, is offering two courses this semester: "The U.S. and the Arab-Israeli Conflict" and "Topics in Arab/Persian Gulf Politics: The Gulf Since the Iranian Revolution." Next year, Mylroie plans to be on sabbatical to research American policies toward the Arab-Israeli crisis. She said she hopes this work, which is based on several themes discussed in her course on America's role in the Middle East, will form the basis of her second book...