EFRAIM KARSH


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Efraim Karsh

In the modern world, it is not the poor and the oppressed who have led the great revolutions and/or carried out the worst deeds of violence; rather, it is militant vanguards from among the better educated and more moneyed circles of society.
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Defending one’s state against external aggression is indeed the ultimate test of citizenship.
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Karsh was arguing that Arab citizens of Israel should be required to serve in the Israeli army and fight against other Arabs who have repeatedly attacked Israel. The Israeli tradition has been not to require Arab citizens to fight against what might be their own relatives. Karsh and others argue that Italian-Americans fought against other Italians in WWII, German-Americans fought against Germans.

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Efraim Karsh
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Efraim Karsh (Hebrew: אפרים קארש‎; born 1953) is an Israeli–British historian, the founding director and emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. Since 2013, he serves as professor of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University (where he also directs the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies). He is also a principal research fellow and former director of the Middle East Forum, a Philadelphia-based think tank. He is a vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the traditional Israeli narrative of the Arab–Israeli conflict.