Ira Sharkansky is professor emeritus of political science and public administration at Hebrew University.
His books, which are available on Amazon, include:
*Alternative federal solutions to the problem of the administered territories
*Ambiguity, Coping, and Governance: Israeli Experiences in Politics, Religion, and Policymaking
*Ancient and Modern Israel: An Exploration of Political Parallels
*Coping with Terror: An Israeli Perspective
* Governing Israel: Chosen People, Promised Land and Prophetic Tradition
*Governing Jerusalem: Again on the World’s Agenda
* Israel and its Bible: A Political Analysis
* Maligned States: policy accomplishments, problems and opportunities
* Policy Analysis in Political Science
* Policy and Politics in American Governments
* Policy Making in Israel: Routines for Simple Problems and Coping with the Complex
* Politics and Planning in the Holy City
* Politics and Policymaking in Search of Simplicity
* Public Administration: Agencies, Policies, and Politics
* Public Administration Policy Making in Government Agencies
* Public Administration (2nd Edition): Policy Making in Government Agencies
* Regionalism in American Politics
* Rituals of Conflict: Religion, Politics, and Public Policy in Israel
* Spending in the American States
* The Policy Predicament: Making and Implementing Public Policy
* The Political Economy of Israel
* The Politics of Religion and the Religion of Politics
*The Politics of Taxing and Spending
* The Routines of Politics
* The United States: A Study of a Developing Country
* The United States Revisited: A Study of a Still Developing Country
* Urban Politics and Public Policy [Robert Lineberry]
* What Makes Israel Tick: How Domestic Policy-Makers Cope with Restraints
* Wither the State: Politics and Public Enterprise in Three Countries
By Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A New York Times review of a recent book about Obama’s “blackness” pretty much sums up what we’ve known since he came on the stage a decade ago. He isn’t all that black. He’s no Jesse Jackson. He’s a non-threatening African American, moreso than Americans whose ancestors came centuries ago, insofar […]
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — History is a mess. It’s filled with bad acts, feeding anger and demands for revenge, as well as lots of myths, half-truths, and just plain lies. Napoleon provided his share, as well as the line that history was myth that people believed. Jews have been creators and victims. There aren’t
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Ira Sharkansky, Jewish History, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Those inclined to think that Israel is singled out for the nuttiness of criticisms directed against it might consider the presidential election campaign underway in the United States, as well as the bending and twisting by Europeans in the face of Muslim refugees on the way from the east and south.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–At first thought, the French proposal to convene a peace conference between Israel and the Palestine Authority, with a commitment to recognize a Palestinian State no matter what, sounds like an awesome threat. France is something to think about. It’s not a Muslim country like those that long ago recognized Palestine. Those
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastSAN DIEGO (SDJW) — San Diego Jewish World expresses its appreciation to the 43 writers and photographers whose works appeared during January 2016. These individuals included: David Amos Eitan Arom Kenneth Bandler Laurie Baron Amber Bartlett Ronnie Blair Dan Bloom Shoshana Bryen Stephen Bryen Cynthia Citron Richard L. Cravatts Judy Friedel Michael Freund Donald H. Harrison Natasha
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Barry Shaw, Cynthia Citron, Donald H. Harrison, Dorothea Shefer-Vanson, Eileen Wingard, Eva Trieger, Fred Reiss, EdD, Ira Sharkansky, Lawrence Baron, Mark D. Zimmerman, Michael Leo Samuel-Rabbi, Mimi Pollack, Natasha Josefowitz, Sheryl Rowling, Shoshana Bryen, Steve KramerBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–I’ve received yet another learned essay arguing that Israel has to acknowledge the failure of the Oslo Accords, and move on. That is a tiresome mantra, with different versions from the right and left. Each manages to find enough to blame in what the Palestinians have done (the right) or what Israel
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Life isn’t all politics. Some things are in the hands of Nature, the Almighty, or however you want to call it. Insofar as there is nothing more boring than someone else’s weather, feel free to stop at this point. With no hard feelings. That being said, Jerusalem’s weather, along with
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, The World We ShareBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — There is sadness along with satisfaction in recent stories of Palestinians captured or killed as a result of their attacks against Jews. A 13 year old girl was shot to death as she charged, with knife raised, against a security guard on the border between a Palestinian town and Jerusalem.
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM–We’ve had another round of clamoring about who is responsible for the failure of Israelis and Palestinians to reach an agreement ending their disputes. There are two fronts in the recent verbiage. One consists of accusations by Mahmoud Abbas and Benyamin Netanyahu about one another’s willingness to meet. Another concerns the prospect
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — We’ve recently heard negative comments from ranking officials of the United States about two issues in our headlines. There’s a feeling of being scolded for poor behavior. In this case, however, the teacher comes to the scolding with dirty hands, or behavior that is hardly different from what Israel is said
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — Something like 30 Israelis have died in the present wave of violence. Some call it the Knifing or Stabbing Intifada, in reference to the large incidence of attacks with knives, by a male or female, most of whom have ranged in age from 15 to 35. Some have been as
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — A New York Times review of a book describing what may be the world’s largest refugee camp, near Kenya’s border with Somalia, notes that 60 million people have been displaced throughout the world as a result of conflict and other mass misfortunes.. We can paraphrase Stalin: one person forced from
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International, Ira Sharkansky, Middle East, USABy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — This ain’t a simple country. Part of the explanation is that Jews are not a simple people. And another part is that the Land of Israel, however you define its boundaries, was and is an outsider in both ancient and modern versions, always having to defend itself in a tough
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Ira Sharkansky, Middle EastBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — BDS has some traction among academics, performers, trade unions, churches, and retailers, but it has also generated opposition in all of those fields. If it has had any tangible economic impact, it is more likely against Palestinians dependent on employment with Israeli firms located in the West Bank, and in lowering
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