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. For decades, Bernard Lewis, who has just died, provided the intellectual and moral justification for bigotry and war in the Middle East, Dancing on the dead: The US embassy opens a new era of bloodshed, Do not weep for Bernard Lewis, high priest of war in the Middle East. If Islam is at war with the West, then why are the large Islamic states (Egypt, Malaysia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc) for the most part Western allies? Islam, like Judaism and Christianity, has an end of time scenario," the scholar said. No one person can or should be blamed for all the death and destruction we are witnessing in the Middle East. ... We do not hear these words applied to the revolution in Iran. More than 30 years ago Lewis was engaged in a furious series of exchanges with the Palestinian literary critic Edward Said. Yet another Zionist Plan for the establishment of greater Israel by dividing Middle East known as “Oded Yinon Plan”, also exists. Turkey could be the next Iran. But Lewis bears his share because he provided the intellectual and moral justification for bigotry and war. ", The view that Islam and the West are embroiled in an existential battle for survival has proved hugely influential on both sides of the Atlantic. To put it mildly, the world's estimated 1.8 billion Muslims do not all think the same. Oxford Univ Press 1994. Only England And Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. 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. He later deceitfully claimed that he had been against the Iraq invasion. Bernard Lewis (Stoke Newington, Hackney kerület, London, 1916. május 31. Rafi ELITE MEMBER. No other person in our time has done as much to inform and influence the West’s view of the Islamic world and the Middle East. The controversy still rages but my guess is that history will agree that Said was right. Bernard Lewis, who passed away in May 2018, was a renowned British-American historian of Islam and the Middle East. The death of Bernard Lewis just short of his 102nd birthday is a great blow to Middle East scholarship. Biografia. Even before 9/11 he'd pressed for regime change in Iraq, and after the attack he seized his chance. Lewis … It shapes official thinking to this day. 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". 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. We have been here before. 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. "Ahmadinejad and his group clearly believe, and I don't doubt the sincerity of their belief, that we are now entering an apocalyptic age, which will result in the triumph of their messianic figure," Lewis said, referring to the twelfth Imam, Mahdi. Lewis's policy advice has particular weight thanks to this scholarly authority. Bernard Lewis (Londres, 31 de maio de 1916 – 19 de maio de 2018) foi um académico britânico especialista em história do Islão e na interação entre o Islão e o Ocidente. This is rubbish. 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. Bernard Lewis examines the historical roots of the resentments that dominate the Islamic world today and that are increasingly being expressed in acts of terrorism. It was him, and not Samuel Huntington, who coined the phrase "clash of civilisations". Playwrights and actors alike are especially aware of their audiences, both present and future. 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. 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. His books include The Triumph of the Political Class, The Rise of Political Lying, and Why the West is Wrong about Nuclear Iran. Lewis's mistake over Iraq was just one manifestation of a hideous world view which included a nakedly racist approach to the Middle East. Iran: Haman or Cyrus? Yet it is laden with contradictions. Lewis also said his acclaimed book, Semites and anti-Semites, which addresses Arab anti-Semitism, will be published in Arabic in Cairo. It shapes official thinking to this day. Only England And Wales jurisdiction apply in all legal matters. 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. Bernard Lewis, Iran in History. Bush was even spotted carrying a markedup copy o one o Lewis’s articles. Regime change in Iran was one of Bernard Lewis’s political projects and, inspired by his intellectual hero, Pompeo may be about to have a go at achieving it. 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. - 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. Lewis was also guilty of a disastrous intellectual reductionism. M.A.D doesn't work with these people.". Regime change in Iran was one of Bernard Lewis’s political projects and, inspired by his intellectual hero, Pompeo may be about to have a go at achieving it. 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. The “Bernard Lewis plan,” as it came to be known, was a design to fracture all the countries in the region, from the Middle East to India, along ethnic, sectarian, and linguistic lines. An outline of the diabolical plan of the Khazars and British to destabilize the Middle East, in order to break it up or Balkanize the region. He also threw in with the neoconservatives, and contributed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. - The End of Modern History in the Middle East - Bernard Lewis - History of the Middle East - Historical Books - Education materials - Modern History. 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. Bernard Lewis (Stoke Newington, 31 maggio 1916 – Voorhees, 19 maggio 2018) è stato uno storico e orientalista britannico. Both great scholars struck heavy blows in this debate, but I believe that Said was onto something important when he argued that "Lewis simply cannot deal with the diversity of Muslim, much less human life, because it is closed to him as something foreign, radically different, and other.". 1. . "Iran is a mortal threat, and one also has to take account of the apocalyptic mood of Ahmadinejad and his circle. 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. Moderator, Mr. Dan Diker, Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. The partitioning of Iran (Bernard Lewis Project) is seen as an economic necessity (see item 3 below). 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 All rights reserved. Yet he did - hook line and sinker - with terrible consequences that the Middle East lives with to this day. ... About the Shah of Iran, for example, or Golda Meir. Chpt. He was one of the West’s leading scholars on Islam and the Middle East. Lewis expanded on this view in a series of books and lectures that painted a backwards-looking Muslim world seething with hatred against a modernising and virtuous West. 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. Bernard Lewis has just moved to a small apartment in the manicured suburbs on Philadelphia's Main Line. mutually assured destruction is not a deterrent—it's an inducement." 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. Bernard Lewis. Bernard Lewis. This awareness affects revolutionaries as they write, direct, interpret, and perform their roles in the revolutionary drama. 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 … Site developed by Copyright © Yedioth Internet. British Arabist, Dr. Bernard Lewis (z L'b): "Why Western powers must thwart Islamist Iran's nuclear program" at the '09 Jerusalem Conference. The "Ber nard Lewis plan," as it came to be known, was a design to Jul 23, 2010 10,838 11 17,502 Country Location. The views expressed in this article belong to the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Middle East Eye. Not that you would know this from reading today's newspapers. I can think of no modern scholar who has perpetrated half as much harm. Lewis thinks the imams in Iran "are religious fanatics with an apocalyptic mindset. Believes in triumph of messianic figure, Outdated Cold war concepts, such as mutually assured destruction (M.A.D) are irrelevant when it comes to, 'Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West', See all talkbacks "Bernard Lewis: Iran in apocalyptic mood". Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "the doyen of Middle Eastern studies," Bernard Lewis has been for half a century one of the West's foremost scholars of Islamic history and culture, the author of over two dozen books, most notably The Arabs in History, The Emergence of Modern Turkey, The Political Language of Islam, and The Muslim Discovery of Europe. brit-amerikai történész, az orientalisták, Közel-Kelet vagy iszlám/arab szakértők doyenje, legtekintélyesebbike. 1990’lı yıllar yine Bernard Lewis’in dur durak bilmeden kitaplarını yayımladığı dönem olarak geçti. But herein lies the irony: the Bernard Lewis plan is also directed against Turkey (see item 9 below) and Arab states such as Iraq. I take this as a good sign: it’s now a blot on your resume to have supported the Iraq war. January 21, 1988 Issue. May 19, 2012 He was directly involved. 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. Lewis was intellectually a towering figure. Ahmadinejad. Bernard Lewis, historian of the Middle East, passed away on May 19, just shy of his 102nd birthday. If the world is facing a war of civilisations, why do states remain the powerful actors in world affairs? . "Muslims, like Jews, believe that there are things you can do to hasten the messiah. Lewis's influence continues to this day. We have been here before. US Secretary of State and former CIA boss Mike Pompeo declared on 20 May: "I owe a great deal of my understanding of the Middle East to his work." 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. In May 2018, renowned Princeton Professor Bernard Lewis passed away. 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'. Lewis was there when the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board held its notorious meeting to consider military action against Iraq at the end of September 2001. 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 ». Race and Slavery in the Middle East. Bernard Lewis was an historian of the Middle East, and one of the great scholars of our time. This view that Islam and the West are embroiled in an existential battle for survival has proved hugely influential on both sides of the Atlantic. Lewis often wrote as if they did. They respect power.". Lewis was the moral leader of the small group of intellectuals who argued for the Iraq invasion of 2003. This, was the strategic game plan behind the U. 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. The “Bernard Lewis Plan” named after its architect Bernard Lewis, a specialist in ‘oriental studies’, the ‘history of Islam’ and the ‘interaction between Islam and the West’ is well known. It is customary to speak well of the dead. Bernard Lewis. Photo: Bernard Lewis Bernard Lewis (Portrait: Alan Kolc / Princeton University). At Bernard Lewis’s neocon gala, the talk was of war, peace, democracy and Muslims. This meant he had the ability to do great good. American historian Joel Beinin has called him "perhaps the most articulate and learned Zionist advocate in the North American Middle East academic community". © Middle East Eye 2020 - all rights reserved. U.S. Vice President Dick Cheneyremarked "in thi… – Voorhees Township, New Jersey, 2018. május 19.) © Middle East Eye 2020 - all rights reserved. . "There is only solution to the Iranian threat, and that can only come from the Iranian people," Lewis said. He resigned as chief political columnist of the Daily Telegraph in 2015. He also was British Press Awards Columnist of the Year 2013. "We are facing a mood and a movement far transcending the level of issues and policies and the governments that pursue them," observed Lewis in 1990, adding: "This is no less than a clash of civilisations, the perhaps irrational but surely historic reaction of an ancient rival against our Judeo-Christian heritage, our secular present, and the worldwide expansion of both. İran İslam Devrimi’nin oluşturduğu siyasal atmosfer nedeniyle de Müslümanların Avrupa’yı Keşfi ve İslâm’ın Siyasal Söylemi adlı kitapları yayımladı. Author and former Pakistani Ambassador to England, Akbar Ahmed, and Bernard Lewis hold a discussion on the "Islamic World". He told Vice President Dick Cheney: "I believe that one of the things you've got to do to Arabs is hit them between the eyes with a big stick. Addressing a packed hall, Lewis spoke after a screening of the film 'Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West'. 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