Beyond the Storm : A Gulf Crisis Reader

Contributors viii Preface xi Foreword: Thoughts on a War: Ignorant Armies Clash by Night 1(6) Edward W. Said Introduction: Portent of a New Century 7(18) Eqbal Ahmad PART ONE Before the Storm: An Historical Introduction Iraq: Years of Turbulence 25(12) Michel Moushabeck From Regionalism to Nation-State: A Short History of Kuwait 37(13) Hala Fattah The Crisis in the Gulf: Why Iraq Invaded Kuwait 50(5) Bishara A. Bahbah The Battle is Joined 55(20) Steve Niva PART TWO Behind the Storm: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East After the Cold War: U.S. Middle East Policy 75(13) Noam Chomsky The Panama Paradigm 88(3) Barbara Ehrenreich Countdown for a Decade: The U.S. Build-Up for War in the Gulf 91(12) Sheila Ryan U.S. Aid to Israel: Funding Occupation in the Aftermath of the Gulf War 103(9) Jeanne Butterfield False Consensus: George Bush's United Nations 112(17) Phyllis Bennis PART THREE Weathering the Storm: Reaction in the U.S. The Warrior Culture 129(3) Barbara Ehrenreich Peacetime Militarism: An Epidemic Disorder 132(10) Jack O'Dell The Storm at Home: The U.S. Anti-War Movement 142(18) Max Elbaum Restricting Reality: Media Mind-Games and the War 160(13) Laura Flanders PART FOUR The Eye of the Storm: Regional Perspectives and Repercussions The Arab World in the ``New World Order'' 173(8) Clovis Maksoud The Kurds: An Old Crisis at a New Moment 181(2) Clovis Maksoud The Politics of Linkage: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Gulf War 183(8) Ibrahim Abu-Lughood The Other Occupation: The Palestinian Response 191(8) Hanan Mikhail Ashrawi The Gulf Crisis and the Economy in the Occupied Territories 199(6) Samir Hulaileh From the Sealed Room: Israel's Peace Movement During the Gulf War 205(10) Stanley Cohen Israel and the Gulf War: A View from the Israeli Peace Movement 215(13) Mordechai Bar-On Jordan Responds to the Gulf Crisis 228(13) Mustafa B. Hamarneh What Choice Did Egypt Have? 241(7) Sherif Hetata Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: The Islamist Perspective 248(15) Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad PART FIVE The Global Storm: International Perspectives and Respercussions Oil and the Gulf Crisis 263(5) Michael Tanzer Bushbacking: Britain Goes to War 268(12) Paul Rogers Lost Illusions: Europe's Peace Movement 280(12) Daniel Cirera South Asia in the Wake of the Gulf War: The Pakistan Example 292(13) Talat Rahman Lyman Baker PART SIX Storm Watch: Human Rights, the Environment, the Aftermath Human Rights and the Gulf Crisis: The Verbal Strategy of George Bush 305(20) Naseer Aruri For Generations to Come: The Environmental Catastrophe 325(10) Penny Kemp Desert Sin: A Post-War Journey Throuth Iraq 335(21) Louise Cainkar Chronology 356(19) Glossary of terms 375(1) Appendices 376(22) Appendix A---The UN Resolutions Appendix B---The Glaspie - Hussein Transcript Appendix C---The Ahtisaari Report Selected Bibliography 398(10) Index 408