All rights reserved. Biografia. Thread starter Surenas; Start date May 18, 2012; ... Everyone knows Bernard Lewis's inclination, and he serves a purpose for western purposes, big deal, none of this is new at all. Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has an end of time scenario," the scholar said. 1. Rafi ELITE MEMBER. During his lecture, Lewis said Islam was neither a religion of complete peace nor a religion of war symbolized by a horseman riding with a Koran and a sword. ... We do not hear these words applied to the revolution in Iran. Chpt. Photo: Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis (Portrait: Alan Kolc / Princeton University). Bernard Lewis has just moved to a small apartment in the manicured suburbs on Philadelphia's Main Line. Lewis told the board that the United States should support so-called democratic reformers in the Middle East, "such as my friend here, Ahmed Chalabi". A former British intelligence officer, Foreign Office staffer, and Princeton University professor, Lewis was the author of some three-dozen books about the Middle East. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheneyremarked "in thi… Bernard Lewis, historian of the Middle East, passed away on May 19, just shy of his 102nd birthday. Bernard Lewis: Iran in apocalyptic mood Mutually assured destruction is incentive, not deterrence, for Tehran, renowned scholar says Yaakov Lappin | Published: 01.29.07 , 22:01 Bush was even spotted carrying a marked­up copy o one o Lewis’s articles. Yet another Zionist Plan for the establishment of greater Israel by dividing Middle East known as “Oded Yinon Plan”, also exists. known to be a valued interlocutor o Turkish and Jordanian statesmen, Iran’s last shah, Israeli prime ministers, and U.S. President George W. Bush and his team. Playwrights and actors alike are especially aware of their audiences, both present and future. In the mid-1960s, Lewis emerged as a commentator on the issues of the modern Middle East and his analysis of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the rise of militant Islam brought him publicity and aroused significant controversy. "Muslims, like Jews, believe that there are things you can do to hasten the messiah. This meant he had the ability to do great good. It shapes official thinking to this day. He was directly involved. In Islam, as in Christianity and Judaism, there is an end-of-times scenario—and they think it's beginning or has already begun. I refuse to observe this convention in the case of Bernard Lewis, a historian of Islam and the Middle East, who died over the weekend aged 101. New Bernard Lewis plan will carve up the Mideast by Joseph Brewda In 1980, EIR warned that the strategy behind then-U.S. Na­ tional Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's "Arc of Cri­ sis" was a British plan to destroy the nation-state. Only England And Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. Lewis's policy advice has particular weight thanks to this scholarly authority. - Peter Oborne won best commentary/blogging in 2017 and was named freelancer of the year in 2016 at the Online Media Awards for articles he wrote for Middle East Eye. As one of the world's leading experts on Islam, Bernard Lewis had no excuse for falling for Chalabi, the charlatan who led the Iraqi National Congress. Lewis was also guilty of a disastrous intellectual reductionism. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Middle East historian Bernard Lewis (Israeli Government Press Office), Lewis's mistake over Iraq was just one manifestation of a hideous world view that included a nakedly racist approach to the Middle East. – Voorhees Township, New Jersey, 2018. május 19.) It was him, and not Samuel Huntington, who coined the phrase "clash of civilisations". one of Bernard Lewis’s political projects, Saeb Erekat: Palestinian politician who believed talk was the way to a deal, Kuwait's Sheikh Sabah: The Gulf's 'great balancer'. The Wall Street Journal, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and many other outlets carry long obituaries full of praise for one of the great sages of our age. At the heart of Said's attack on Lewis was the assertion that he was less an objective scholar and more a propagandist against Islam and the Arab world. Oxford Univ Press 1994. At 95, it was time for the man theEncyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing calls the "most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East" to leave Princeton—his home for more than 35 years—for a senior living facility known for attracting retired academics. In the meantime, as another war looms again in the Middle East, this time with Iran, Lewis's influence and standing remains as high as ever. Within days of the attacks on the World Trade Centre, he was agitating for the downfall of Saddam Hussein, expressing opinions which delighted the neoconservatives pressing for military action in the Middle East. The death of Bernard Lewis just short of his 102nd birthday is a great blow to Middle East scholarship. The "Ber­ nard Lewis plan," as it came to be known, was a design to Ahmadinejad. If the world is facing a war of civilisations, why do states remain the powerful actors in world affairs? Turkey could be the next Iran. He also was British Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2013. This is rubbish. But herein lies the irony: the Bernard Lewis plan is also directed against Turkey (see item 9 below) and Arab states such as Iraq. Bernard Lewis’ recommendations, which aim to depict Iran as the biggest threat in the Middle East and mold this into the main security and strategic doctrine of the United States and its allies, have inflicted heavy losses both on the west and the Islamic world. January 21, 1988 Issue. It is customary to speak well of the dead. Bernard Lewis. Instead, he became the intellectual high priest for the calamitous wars which have caused such bloodshed across the Middle East, while doing unlimited damage to the standing of the United States. - The End of Modern History in the Middle East - Bernard Lewis - History of the Middle East - Historical Books - Education materials - Modern History. He also threw in with the neoconservatives, and contributed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Yet he did - hook line and sinker -  with terrible consequences that the Middle East lives with to this day. Bernard Lewis, né le 31 mai 1916 à Stoke Newington, un quartier dans Londres et mort le 19 mai 2018 à Voorhees Township au New Jersey1, est un historien de citoyenneté britannique à sa naissance, il a également acquis la nationalité américaine et israélienne. . Ce dernier popularisa en 1978 la théorie de « l’arc de crise », théorisée en premier par Bernard Lewis et visant à déstabiliser la Russie et l’Iran, une vision qu’il appliquera ensuite au Caucase dans son livre « Le grand échiquier ». More than 30 years ago Lewis was engaged in a furious series of exchanges with the Palestinian literary critic Edward Said. Speaking and reading twelve languages including Arabic, Turkish and Hebrew, he had a remarkable grasp of Muslim history and politics, and was uniquely insightful and … We have been here before. At Bernard Lewis’s neocon gala, the talk was of war, peace, democracy and Muslims. 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