This paper uses intercultural identification and accommodation theories.Since Obama became US President on January 20,2009,he has widely demonstrated a considerable cultural transformation in his thinking toward the M...This paper uses intercultural identification and accommodation theories.Since Obama became US President on January 20,2009,he has widely demonstrated a considerable cultural transformation in his thinking toward the Middle East and Islam.Chinese Middle Eastern scholars’perspectives on US policies toward the Middle East and Islam include likely future positive developments by Obama.This paper assesses this transformation during his campaign,in the 2008-09 Gaza crisis bridge issue between the Bush and Obama administrations,with events occurring later,and his June 4,2009 address in Cairo,Egypt.展开更多
While creating a lasting peace process in the Middle East,particularly between Israel and the Arab world,and more specifically with Palestine,has a history of more than 2000 years,this article outlines its history fro...While creating a lasting peace process in the Middle East,particularly between Israel and the Arab world,and more specifically with Palestine,has a history of more than 2000 years,this article outlines its history from Theodore Herzl’s famous 1896 statement about the“Jewish state”to the present time.The article’s emphasis is on gaining new intercultural understandings through reading the discourse that developed over more than a century on the peace process.Rhetorical discourse,on one hand,is speaker/Author-message-channels-and audience-centered,persuasive,and language-based.On the other hand,discourse analysis is descriptive and text oriented,established by setting frames for speaker/author involvement in the discourse,and is always contextual in its orientations.Considering both of these formats of analysis,this article explores Michael Prosser’s personal readings on discourse from several different perspectives,the Israeli discourse,Palestinian discourse,Arab discourse,and western discourse,tracing the history of this aspect of the Middle East peace process from Herzl’s statement to 2011,a historical period of one hundred and five years.A positive result of reading this discourse is a challenge to offer new intercultural understandings,or a“dialogue among civilizations.”展开更多
Books in 2010 by Stephen Kinzer,Andrew C.McCarthy,and Robert R.Reilly,major writers on the Middle East and Islam,have clearly articulated the crisis facing both critical areas of the Middle East and Islam,especially a...Books in 2010 by Stephen Kinzer,Andrew C.McCarthy,and Robert R.Reilly,major writers on the Middle East and Islam,have clearly articulated the crisis facing both critical areas of the Middle East and Islam,especially as they affect the international relations of such countries as the United States.Kinzer traces the development of Turkey toward a modernizing secular democracy and Iran toward a traditional Islamic Republic.He proposes a series of initiatives for the United States to utilize to make them allies,as well as to help solve the crisis between Israel and Palestine.Sensationalizing“the Iran threat”to America and other Western countries,the very conservative McCarthy claims that Islam’s“Grand Jihad”is directed not only toward other Western countries but particularly against the United States.He equates Islam as aligned with“the Left”and calls the Obama administration a major part of a socialistic“Left”which enables Islam to defeat American Christian values and heritage from inside.Reilly claims that Islam chose irrationality over rationality in its domestic and foreign affairs over a millennium ago,leading to a very illusive peace in the Middle East,an area where scientific exploration is nearly dead,translating fewer books in the last thousand years than Spain in a single year,and why Muslims see natural disasters as Allah’s direct retribution for non-Islamic,and thus impure behavior toward Allah.展开更多
Jimmy Carter,Palestine:Peace not Apartheid,NY:Simon and Schuster,2006.U.S.President and Nobel Peace Laureate,Jimmy Carter(1977-1981)has written nearly 20 books,including two on the Middle East,both The New York Times ...Jimmy Carter,Palestine:Peace not Apartheid,NY:Simon and Schuster,2006.U.S.President and Nobel Peace Laureate,Jimmy Carter(1977-1981)has written nearly 20 books,including two on the Middle East,both The New York Times bestsellers:The Blood of Abraham Insights into the Middle East published by Houghton Mifflin with printings and updates in 1985,1993,and 2007,and Palestine:Peace not Apartheid.Appearing on the English channel of Al Jazeera.展开更多
文摘This paper uses intercultural identification and accommodation theories.Since Obama became US President on January 20,2009,he has widely demonstrated a considerable cultural transformation in his thinking toward the Middle East and Islam.Chinese Middle Eastern scholars’perspectives on US policies toward the Middle East and Islam include likely future positive developments by Obama.This paper assesses this transformation during his campaign,in the 2008-09 Gaza crisis bridge issue between the Bush and Obama administrations,with events occurring later,and his June 4,2009 address in Cairo,Egypt.
文摘While creating a lasting peace process in the Middle East,particularly between Israel and the Arab world,and more specifically with Palestine,has a history of more than 2000 years,this article outlines its history from Theodore Herzl’s famous 1896 statement about the“Jewish state”to the present time.The article’s emphasis is on gaining new intercultural understandings through reading the discourse that developed over more than a century on the peace process.Rhetorical discourse,on one hand,is speaker/Author-message-channels-and audience-centered,persuasive,and language-based.On the other hand,discourse analysis is descriptive and text oriented,established by setting frames for speaker/author involvement in the discourse,and is always contextual in its orientations.Considering both of these formats of analysis,this article explores Michael Prosser’s personal readings on discourse from several different perspectives,the Israeli discourse,Palestinian discourse,Arab discourse,and western discourse,tracing the history of this aspect of the Middle East peace process from Herzl’s statement to 2011,a historical period of one hundred and five years.A positive result of reading this discourse is a challenge to offer new intercultural understandings,or a“dialogue among civilizations.”
文摘Books in 2010 by Stephen Kinzer,Andrew C.McCarthy,and Robert R.Reilly,major writers on the Middle East and Islam,have clearly articulated the crisis facing both critical areas of the Middle East and Islam,especially as they affect the international relations of such countries as the United States.Kinzer traces the development of Turkey toward a modernizing secular democracy and Iran toward a traditional Islamic Republic.He proposes a series of initiatives for the United States to utilize to make them allies,as well as to help solve the crisis between Israel and Palestine.Sensationalizing“the Iran threat”to America and other Western countries,the very conservative McCarthy claims that Islam’s“Grand Jihad”is directed not only toward other Western countries but particularly against the United States.He equates Islam as aligned with“the Left”and calls the Obama administration a major part of a socialistic“Left”which enables Islam to defeat American Christian values and heritage from inside.Reilly claims that Islam chose irrationality over rationality in its domestic and foreign affairs over a millennium ago,leading to a very illusive peace in the Middle East,an area where scientific exploration is nearly dead,translating fewer books in the last thousand years than Spain in a single year,and why Muslims see natural disasters as Allah’s direct retribution for non-Islamic,and thus impure behavior toward Allah.
文摘Jimmy Carter,Palestine:Peace not Apartheid,NY:Simon and Schuster,2006.U.S.President and Nobel Peace Laureate,Jimmy Carter(1977-1981)has written nearly 20 books,including two on the Middle East,both The New York Times bestsellers:The Blood of Abraham Insights into the Middle East published by Houghton Mifflin with printings and updates in 1985,1993,and 2007,and Palestine:Peace not Apartheid.Appearing on the English channel of Al Jazeera.
