Shulamit Binah

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Jun 2, 2024, 1:30 PM

Iron Swords’ Women of Valor

(IDF)

The Gaza war has demonstrated how female soldiers could, and did, fight courageously in the front lines alongside male soldiers. It was a forthright response to all those who belittle and oppose, sometimes vehemently, the role of women in...

Apr 3, 2024, 6:12 PM

Sami Michael: “A Prince and a Revolutionary”

"A Prince and a Revolutionary" The first Sami Michael book I read was "A Storm among the Palm Trees," as part of a master's thesis at CUNY in New York on "The Attitude of Arabs and Jews to the Farhud,"...

Jan 4, 2024, 1:29 PM

Intelligence and diplomacy

The Political Department of the Jewish Agency - Crossroad to Israel Statehood

Sep 14, 2023, 8:50 PM

As a political and national way of life, Jewish pluralism in the State of Israel has never been a success story. Israeli politics is usually dominated by well-defined routes, single-dimensional and one-sided, whether on the right or left side...

Aug 24, 2023, 8:19 PM

Excluding Women as a Threat to Israel

In the remarkable opening scene of the film Mary Poppins, Mrs. Banks (played by Glynis Johns) storms into her house at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane, London, waving a suffragette banner and calling to her maid and her cook to...

Aug 13, 2022, 3:33 PM

Perception and Misperception in the Iran Conflict ‎

When Professor Robert L. Jervis published his landmark study in 1976 he did not expect that in 1990 his theory and conclusions would someday meet a real case study. In fact, the 1990 Gulf war exemplified the Jervis theory,...

Mar 16, 2022, 9:51 PM

The Odd Couple? Putin and Saddam

Watching the brutal and unexpected invasion of Ukraine by (imperial?) Russian forces, one cannot escape some bitter reflections. In 1941, my maternal grandfather Noach Rechtman was murdered by Ukrainian thugs, who collaborated enthusiastically with the Nazi occupiers. By 1944...

Dec 12, 2021, 11:48 AM

No Turkish Delight

Turkish-Israeli relations have been recently brought up once again, after a long period of chill and even unfriendly statements by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan toward Israel. re may be a renewed hope of improving these strategic relations, which David Ben-Gurion, Israel's...

Jan 4, 2021, 1:23 AM

The Unknown “Pink Death” in Iraq

A "natural" pandemic, like the one we currently go through, can paralyze entire societies by causing widespread medical emergencies. Usually, governments should be able to deal with such emergencies, but sometimes they are the result of governments' dysfunctional conduct. It...

Jul 23, 2020, 9:48 PM

The Iraqi Exodus and its Silent Partner

The flight of the Babylonian (Iraqi Jewish) community from Iraq to Israel was a formidable endeavor, delivering a whole community from the claws of angry mobs and vengeful authorities. No doubt, the daring devotion of young emissaries, like Shlomo...

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About Me

An expert in Middle Eastern affairs, Shulamit Binah’s book, UNITED STATES – IRAQ BILATERAL RELATIONS, Confusion and Misperception 1967 to 1979, has been published by Valentine-Mitchell (London 2018). Dr. Binah retired from government service after a full career in analysis and evaluation. She lives in Israel.