Recent Posts by Michael Nance

The Lack of an Israeli Spring

The Arab Spring protests throughout the Middle East this year have had many sources. Some were political; the former regimes of Tunisia and Egypt and the current governments of Syria and Yemen, were all authoritarian regimes posing as democracies with varying degrees of actual freedom.1 These states all had the same leaders in power forContinue Reading

The Roots of Combative Zionism: Israeli Militarism in the Works

How did militarism became so prevalent within the Jewish settler communities in Palestine?