The Divergence of Judaism and Islam. Interdependence, Modernity, and Political Turmoil

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  1. JANA, 18, 25 February 1995 and 7 March 1995, Daily Report.

  2. Tripoli TV, 20 November 1995, and JANA, 30 November 1995, Daily Re-
    port. For a discussion of the normalization process between Israel and the geo-
    graphically peripheral Arab states in the mid-1990s, see David Makovsky, “The
    Arab-Israeli Peace Process,” Middle East Contemporary Survey 1995 19 (1997):
    50–53.

  3. For details, see M. K. Deeb, “Militant Islam and Its Critics: The Case
    of Libya,” in J. Ruedy, ed., Islamism and Secularism in North Africa (New York:
    St. Martin’s Press, 1994), 187–97, and Yehudit Ronen, “Qadhafi and Militant
    Islamism: Unprecedented Conflict,” Middle Eastern Studies 38, no. 4 (October
    2002): 1–16.

  4. Tripoli TV, 24 January 2001, BBC, quoting Qadhafi’s lecture to political
    science students at the Fath University in Tripoli.

  5. Quoted in al-Quds al- ̔Arabi, 4 March 2002. For the Saudi peace initiative,
    see Joseph Kostiner, “Coping with Regional Challenges: A Case Study of Crown
    Prince Abdullah’s Peace Initiative,” in Saudi Arabia in the Balance, ed. Paul Aarts
    and Gerd Nonneman (London: Hurst, 2005), 352–71.

  6. Algiers TV, 23 March 2005, BBC.

  7. Yehudit Ronen, “Libya’s Qadhafi and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,”

  8. Qadhafi reiterated the “one state” theme on many occasions, including an
    exclusive interview with Newsweek–Washington Post’s Lally Weymouth, 12 Janu-
    ary 2003.

  9. Qadhafi’s “White Book” published on the website http://www.algathafi.
    org/medialeast/medialeast-en.htm, 12 January 2006.

  10. E.g., Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad quoted in the New York Times, 29 October



  11. Qadhafi in television interviews on al-Jazira TV, 1 January 2006 and
    Tripoli TV, 5 January 2006, http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.
    cgi?ID=SD106806.

  12. Al-Quds al- ̔Arabi, 28 January 2005.

  13. Al-Ahram al- ̔Arabi, Cairo, 24 January 2004.

  14. For a broader discussion of Arab perceptions of the Holocaust, see Meir
    Litvak and Esther Webman, “Perceptions of the Holocaust in Palestinian Public
    Discourse,” Israeli Studies 8, no. 3 (2003): 123–40; Meir Litvak and Esther Web-
    man, “The Representation of the Holocaust in the Arab World,” Journal of Israeli
    History 23, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 100–115.

  15. See Iranian president Ahmadi-Nejad’s argument on the myth of the Hol-
    ocaust as “an excuse used by the Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart
    of the Islamic world,” as well as the “myth” position stated, though later de-
    nied, by Mahdi ̔Akef, the spiritual guide of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.
    See Associated Press from Tehran, quoted in the New York Times, 15 December
    2005, and Mideastwire.com, 26 December 2005, referring to ̔Akef’s interview
    in al-Hayat, 24 December 2005.

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