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This Is How the Iran War Has Exposed Israel's Weakness in the Middle East

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By Michael B Young
| Zeteo Verified
Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19, 2026. Photo by Ronen Zvulun/AFP via Getty Images To understand the policies of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, we must recall that the Israeli prime minister is the political heir of Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the founder of the Revisionist Zionist movement, one of whose aides was Netanyahu’s father, Benzion. Jabotinsky outlined Israel’s stark reality in an essay in 1923 titled “The Iron Wall.”
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Edward Said and Fouad Ajami: Exile and the Empire

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By Michael B Young
| Substack
I wrote this article for the Daily Star in 2003, after the death of Edward Said. It captures a particular moment in my thinking. I had been close to Fouad Ajami—serving as his graduate assistant at university—and tried to find a point of contact between Said, at his death, and Ajami, because I felt there was much more to their complicated relationship than the hostility to which most people pointed.
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The King and Us

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By Michael B Young
| Substack
Tariq Tell is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the American University of Beirut, where he also teaches in the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies. A political economist, Tell previously taught at the American University in Cairo and the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom.
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