Michael J Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3744297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2336-3782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 44 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The British Mandate in Palestine
"The British Mandate over Palestine began just 100 years ago, in July 1920, when Sir Herbert Samuel, the first British High Commissioner to Palestine, took his seat at Government House, Jerusalem. The chapters analyze a wide cross-section of the conflicting issues, social, political and strategical that attended British colonial rule over the country, from 1920 to 1948. This anthology contains contributions by several of the most respected Israel…
Britain and the Arab Middle East
Fighting World War Three from the Middle East
This description of Allied contingency plans for military operations in the Middle East - in the event of conflict with the Soviet Union - argues that diplomatic events and crises in the Middle East in 1945-55 are understandable only in the context of assets sought by the Allies in that region
Centenary of the Balfour Declaration
During World War One, both Arabs and Zionists sought to become “the tools of British imperialism.” The British exploited both as their own interests dictated, without giving a thought for future consequences. In 1915, the MacMahon-Husayn correspondence – conducted between Britain's High Commissioner in Cairo and a non-representative Arab Bedouin leader from the Arabian Peninsula – ended inconclusively, without agreement. In contrast, the Balfour …
The 1956 Suez War and the New World Order in the Middle East
This is a problematic book to review. Henkin, a military historian at the Israeli Defense Force's (IDF) Command and General Staff College, argues that ‘interviews and memories’ are insufficient, an
The British Mandate in Palestine
After the “Wailing Wall” riots and pogroms that swept Palestine in August 1929, a British Commission of Inquiry reported that the Zionist project in Palestine could not proceed without encroaching upon the rights of the Palestinians, creating a class of landless Arabs. The minority Labour government endorsed these conclusions, in its White Paper of October 1930. But in a period of severe economic crisis, with Britain fearful of the Zionist lobby …
Britain's Moment in Palestine
In 1917, the British issued the Balfour Declaration for military and strategic reasons. This book analyses why and how the British took on the Palestine Mandate. It explores how their interests and policies changed during its course and why they evacuated the country in 1948. During the first decade of the Mandate the British enjoyed an influx of Jewish capital mobilized by the Zionists which enabled them not only to fund the administration of Pa…
The World's Water 2006-2007
The World’s Water
The Pacific Institute is one of the world's leading research and policy nonprofits working to create a healthier planet and sustainable communities. Based in Oakland, California, we conduct interdisciplinary research and partner with stakeholders to produce solutions that advance environmental protection, economic development, international security, and social equity-nationally and internationally. Since the Institute's founding in 1987, we have…
Zionism and British imperialism II
Britain honored its international commitment under the Balfour Declaration for the duration of the 1920s in order to retain control of Palestine – a strategic buffer to the Suez Canal. The import of Jewish capital and revenues from Zionist enterprise and commerce in Palestine enabled it to do so. Not only was Britain able to administer Palestine at a minimal cost to the British taxpayer, but it also used Zionist-generated capital to finance its o…
Was the Balfour Declaration at risk in 1923? Zionism and British imperialism
This article examines the nature of the British government's commitment to the Balfour Declaration after World War I. It refutes the hypothesis that in 1923 the Conservative government was on the brink of abrogating the Balfour Declaration. After the war, the Declaration became Britain's international license for her exclusive rule over Palestine. Palestine was not written off as an imperial asset but remained a vital British strategic interest. …
The Churchill-Gilbert Symbiosis
Churchill's place in history derives primarily from his bulldog spirit, which during the dark days of 1940 inspired the British people and gave them the will to fight on alone. Until 1940, although he had served as Minister several times, he was generally considered a political opportunist and a has-been—a failure. One ground-breaking, insightful study of him, published in 1970, was entitled: Churchill: A Study in Failure, 1900–1939.1 Prior to Se…
From ‘Cold’ to ‘Hot’ War
After the Second World War, the gravest danger facing the West was the possibility that the ‘Cold War’ with the Soviet bloc might ignite a new, ‘hot’ conflict – a third world war. In the spring of
Churchill and Auschwitz
Science and policy dilemmas in the management of agricultural waste waters
Fighting World War Three from the Middle East
Journal Article Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Cohen. (Portland, Ore.: Cass, 1997. xvi, 349 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7146-4720-9. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-7146-4269-X.) Get access Douglas Little Douglas Little Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September …
The Superpowers in the Middle East
RAMI GINAT. The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945–1955. London: Frank Cass, dist. Portland, OR: ISBS, 1993. Pp. xii, 268. $45.00 (US); ABRAHAM BEN-ZVL The United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 312. $35.00 (US)
William A. Eddy, the oil lobby and the Palestine problem
In 1979, Evan M. Wilson, former head of the Palestine desk at the State Department (1942-8), published a book based on his own 'firsthand experience, amplified by five years of research at archives in Washington, DC, New York, Jerusalem, London and Oxford, as well as at the Roosevelt and Truman Libraries'. In it, Wilson claimed that there had been nc Arab parallel to the Zionist lobby on Palestine
Integrated ecology
Most personal, social and environmental stress results from our estrangement from nature's wise unconditional love within and about us.A new integrated ecology training program uniquely addresses this great challenge to the psychological community.Counseling students in natural areas over a thirty year period has produced ninety-seven unique nature-connecting activities that renew over forty-nine inherent sensory fulfillments.These ecopsychology …
Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s
The chapters in this book focus on the security of the British position in the Middle East between 1935 and 1939. In 1935 Britain was still able to rush reinforcements to the Middle East to forestall
A Second Chance for American Zionists
Truman and Israel
Journal Article Truman and Israel. By Michael J. Cohen. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. xiv + 342 pp. $24.95.) Get access Peter Grose Peter Grose Foreign Affairs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 78, Issue 2, September 1991, Page 737, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079671 Published: 01 September 1991
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949.
Truman and Israel
Chaim Weizmann
Palestine
Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948
The Moyne assassination, November, 1944
(1979). The Moyne assassination, November, 1944: a political analysis. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 358-373
Secret Diplomacy and Rebellion in Palestine, 1936–1939
The Arab Rebellion in Palestine began with sporadic outbursts of terrorism on April 19, 1936. The ensuing disorders and the Arab general strike that followed were in retaliation against the British refusal to grant three demands first put by the Arab leadership of Palestine to the Mandatory in November, 1935. The three demands were: ( a ) total cessation of Jewish immigration into Palestine; ( b ) prohibition of all sales of Arab land to Jews; an…
British Strategy and the Palestine Question 1936-39
British policy in the Mediterranean was a function of the Imperial interest in India, and was largely determined by the need to control both exits from the inland sea at Gibraltar and at the Suez Canal. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935 gave a profound shock to British strategic thinking. The Italy of Mussolini was not the minor power of the nineteenth century, 'to be tolerated' on the Nile hinterland and on the Red Sea exit from …
Zionism and British imperialism II
Britain honored its international commitment under the Balfour Declaration for the duration of the 1920s in order to retain control of Palestine – a strategic buffer to the Suez Canal. The import of Jewish capital and revenues from Zionist enterprise and commerce in Palestine enabled it to do so. Not only was Britain able to administer Palestine at a minimal cost to the British taxpayer, but it also used Zionist-generated capital to finance its o…
Science and policy dilemmas in the management of agricultural waste waters
Fighting World War Three from the Middle East
Journal Article Fighting World War Three from the Middle East: Allied Contingency Plans, 1945–1954. By Michael J. Cohen. (Portland, Ore.: Cass, 1997. xvi, 349 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-7146-4720-9. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-7146-4269-X.) Get access Douglas Little Douglas Little Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 85, Issue 2, September …
The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939 Part II
The 1939 White Paper remained the basis of British rule in Palestine during the first three years of war. The military crises that erupted in the Middle East between 1940 and 1942 did not permit consideration of any alternatives - if only because Britain could not be certain that in would still be in the area at the end of the war. Since his appointment to the War Cabinet in September 1939, Churchill had tried, in vain, to halt the implementation…
Appeasement in the Middle East
The White Paper on Palestine, issued by the British Government in May 1939, adumbrated future British policy in Palestine at a time when all members of the Cabinet, including Chamberlain, had accepted the inevitability of war. Yet, while they were concerting measures for war on a global scale, the Middle Eastern theatre was of low military priority, and appeasement remained the order of the day, with the White Paper as its principal instrument. T…
The Churchill-Gilbert Symbiosis
Churchill's place in history derives primarily from his bulldog spirit, which during the dark days of 1940 inspired the British people and gave them the will to fight on alone. Until 1940, although he had served as Minister several times, he was generally considered a political opportunist and a has-been—a failure. One ground-breaking, insightful study of him, published in 1970, was entitled: Churchill: A Study in Failure, 1900–1939.1 Prior to Se…
Churchill and Auschwitz
The Superpowers in the Middle East
RAMI GINAT. The Soviet Union and Egypt, 1945–1955. London: Frank Cass, dist. Portland, OR: ISBS, 1993. Pp. xii, 268. $45.00 (US); ABRAHAM BEN-ZVL The United States and Israel: The Limits of the Special Relationship. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993. Pp. xi, 312. $35.00 (US)
Churchill and the Jews
Journal Article CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS: THE HOLOCAUST Get access Michael J. Cohen Michael J. Cohen BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 1986, Pages 27–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.1.27 Published: 01 February 1986
The Genesis of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945
The Anglo-American Committee, whose appointment was announced on 13 November 1945, had its origins in a purely British initiative: an ad hoc, spur-of-the-moment attempt to associate the United States responsibly with British policy in Palestine. However, this committee did not succeed, any more than had its many predecessors, in finding a solution to the Palestine problem palatable to all parties. Nor did it bring relief to the mass of refugees w…
Direction of policy in Palestine, 1936–45
The years preceding World War Two witnessed significant changes in British policy in Palestine. These changes were at one and the same time the cause and effect of a radical re-adjustment of the British policymaking machine (for want of a better name) responsible for Palestine. Until 1936, Britain had administered the Palestine Mandate in the light of a reasonably objective judgement of the respective rights of Zionists and Arabs. To a considerab…
Sir Arthur Wauchope, the army, and the rebellion in Palestine, 1936
This article will examine the fluctuations in British policy during the first phase of the Arab Rebellion in Palestine, which lasted from April to October, 1936. It would now be purely academic to conjecture the fate of Palestinian Arab nationalism, had the 1936 rebellion been crushed at its onset-as the Army believed it could have done. But in 1936, the civil and military authorities in Palestine differed in their assessment of the genuineness o…
British Strategy and the Palestine Question 1936-39
British policy in the Mediterranean was a function of the Imperial interest in India, and was largely determined by the need to control both exits from the inland sea at Gibraltar and at the Suez Canal. The Italian invasion of Abyssinia in October 1935 gave a profound shock to British strategic thinking. The Italy of Mussolini was not the minor power of the nineteenth century, 'to be tolerated' on the Nile hinterland and on the Red Sea exit from …
Sir Arthur Wauchope, the army, and the rebellion in Palestine, 1936
This article will examine the fluctuations in British policy during the first phase of the Arab Rebellion in Palestine, which lasted from April to October, 1936. It would now be purely academic to conjecture the fate of Palestinian Arab nationalism, had the 1936 rebellion been crushed at its onset-as the Army believed it could have done. But in 1936, the civil and military authorities in Palestine differed in their assessment of the genuineness o…
Appeasement in the Middle East
The White Paper on Palestine, issued by the British Government in May 1939, adumbrated future British policy in Palestine at a time when all members of the Cabinet, including Chamberlain, had accepted the inevitability of war. Yet, while they were concerting measures for war on a global scale, the Middle Eastern theatre was of low military priority, and appeasement remained the order of the day, with the White Paper as its principal instrument. T…
Direction of policy in Palestine, 1936–45
The years preceding World War Two witnessed significant changes in British policy in Palestine. These changes were at one and the same time the cause and effect of a radical re-adjustment of the British policymaking machine (for want of a better name) responsible for Palestine. Until 1936, Britain had administered the Palestine Mandate in the light of a reasonably objective judgement of the respective rights of Zionists and Arabs. To a considerab…
The British White Paper on Palestine, May 1939 Part II
The 1939 White Paper remained the basis of British rule in Palestine during the first three years of war. The military crises that erupted in the Middle East between 1940 and 1942 did not permit consideration of any alternatives - if only because Britain could not be certain that in would still be in the area at the end of the war. Since his appointment to the War Cabinet in September 1939, Churchill had tried, in vain, to halt the implementation…
Secret Diplomacy and Rebellion in Palestine, 1936–1939
The Arab Rebellion in Palestine began with sporadic outbursts of terrorism on April 19, 1936. The ensuing disorders and the Arab general strike that followed were in retaliation against the British refusal to grant three demands first put by the Arab leadership of Palestine to the Mandatory in November, 1935. The three demands were: ( a ) total cessation of Jewish immigration into Palestine; ( b ) prohibition of all sales of Arab land to Jews; an…
Evidence for Physiological Response Stereotypy in Migraine Headache
Several biological theories of psychosomatic disorders predict that susceptible individuals will have stereotypic physiological responses to stress. This hypothesis was tested in a sample of 13 migraine headache subjects by observing their head and hand temperature, frontal electromyography (EMG), heart rate, skin conductance level, and finger pulse amplitude under the conditions of rest, orienting to a tone, time estimation, reaction time, and m…
Palestine
Palestine, Retreat from the Mandate
The Moyne assassination, November, 1944
(1979). The Moyne assassination, November, 1944: a political analysis. Middle Eastern Studies: Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 358-373
The Genesis of the Anglo-American Committee on Palestine, November 1945
The Anglo-American Committee, whose appointment was announced on 13 November 1945, had its origins in a purely British initiative: an ad hoc, spur-of-the-moment attempt to associate the United States responsibly with British policy in Palestine. However, this committee did not succeed, any more than had its many predecessors, in finding a solution to the Palestine problem palatable to all parties. Nor did it bring relief to the mass of refugees w…
Comparison of Four Biofeedback Treatments for Migraine Headache
Forty-two migraine headache patients participated in an appraisal of biofeedback for differential finger warming--forehead cooling, frontalis EMG relaxation, alpha enhancement and vasoconstriction of the temporal scalp arteries. All patients provided 8 weeks of baseline charting of headache and then received 24 training sessions in one of the above conditions. Headache charting continued throughout training and for 8 months posttraining. During t…
Biofeedback and Behavioral Medicine 1970-1980
Truman and Palestine, 1945–1948
A recently-published review article cited over 200 studies of the Truman Presidency. The major debates surrounding the Truman period are of course concerned with the origins and evolution of the Cold War, and with economic and domestic reform at home. However, in this entire review, there is not a single mention of Zionism, the Jews, or Israel. The ramifications of the Holocaust, and the plight of the Jewish refugees who had survived (the so-call…
Origins of the Arab states' involvement in Palestine
The year 1936 witnessed the first intervention by Arab states in Palestinian affairs, setting the precedent for a process which is not yet completed. It will be my purpose here to examine the extent to which Arab involvement came about as a result of the initiative of the particular state concerned, and the extent to which it resulted from a coherent policy on the part of the British government. Alternatively, one may enquire whether as so often …
Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948
Palestine and the Great Powers, 1945-1948
Cohen examines the struggle leading to the creation of the state of Israel, placing British evacuation of Palestine in the context of Britain's postwar weakness. The author describes the policies and character of each of the major actors in his story--Bevin. Truman. Ben-Gurion, and the Mufti of Jerusalem. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of…
Chaim Weizmann
In the pantheon of modern Jewish leaders, Chaim Weizmann is a giant. One of the founding fathers of the state of Israel and its first president, he was also a president of the World Zionist Organization and a chemist of the first rank, for whom Israel's renowned Weizmann Institute of Science was named. Yet there has never been a scholarly biography of Weizmann. His own autobiography, Trial and Error, written largely from memory, is riddled with e…
Churchill and the Jews
Journal Article CHURCHILL AND THE JEWS: THE HOLOCAUST Get access Michael J. Cohen Michael J. Cohen BAR-ILAN UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 6, Issue 1, February 1986, Pages 27–49, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/6.1.27 Published: 01 February 1986
Churchill and the Jews
1. Churchill the Man 2. The Jewish Problem 3. The Middle East Imbroglio, 1919-1921 4. Crisis in Palestine, 1921 5. The 1922 White Paper 6. Churchill and Palestine, 1924-1939 7. World War Two 8. Churchill and the Holocaust Epilogue: Churchill in Opposition, 1945-1948. Conclusion
Chaim Weizmann
Origins and Evolution of the Arab-Zionist Conflict
Here is a brief, intelligent, even-handed analytical account of the origins of the Arab-Zionist conflict and its development from early in the twentieth century until 1948, focusing particularly on the period when Britain ruled Palestine under mandate from the League of Nations
The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949.
Truman and Israel
A Second Chance for American Zionists
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