The War Comes Home: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Marseille during the 1991 Gulf War
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On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, unleashing the fi rst Gulf crisis. When, by January, the United Nations’ economic sanctions had failed to force Iraqi withdrawal, the United States and a thirty-four nation coalition invaded. Although Israel did not participate, this brief war, over by February 28, could not help but intersect with the ongoing Arab-Israeli confl ict. Not only did the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, choose to drop missiles on Tel Aviv, touching off a secondary crisis over potential Israeli involvement, but calls to resolve the Palestinian question as part of a regional settlement circulated widely. For Muslims and Jews watching developments from afar, the First Gulf War thus became more than a conflict over Kuwaiti independence, oil rights or western imperialism. Rather it became a barometer of Muslim-Jewish relations around the world.
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Antisemitism: Muslim Israeli-Arab Conflict Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Jewish - Muslim Relations Main Topic: Other
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9780415995870
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Link to book (paywalled), The War Comes Home: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Marseille during the 1991 Gulf War
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The War Comes Home: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Marseille during the 1991 Gulf War. 2010: https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.4324/9780203882054
