Mordechai Kedar

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Mordechai Kedar (born 1952 in Tel Aviv; Hebrew: מרדכי קידר‎; Arabic: مردخاي كيدار‎) is an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds the Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University.

Kedar is an academic expert on the Israeli Arab population. He served for twenty-five years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.^[1] The Los Angeles Times' Edmund Sanders described him as "one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel".^[2]

According to Israel National News, Kedar said in June 2008 that "Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, period" and also said that Jerusalem wasn't mentioned in the Qur'an.^[3]

Publications

Books

Asad in Search of Legitimacy – Message and Rhetoric in the Syrian Press under Hafiz and Bashar. Sussex Academic Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84519-185-6.

Articles

"The Psychological Asymmetry of Islamist Warfare". Middle East Quarterly. Spring 2008. pp. 37–44. Retrieved 2011-04-08.

Op-eds

"Understanding the Iranians". The Jerusalem Post. December 14, 2005. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
"The Myth of al-Aqsa". Ynetnews. September 15, 2008. Retrieved 2011-04-08.

References

↑ "Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Mordechai Kedar". The Begin–Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. Bar-Ilan University. Retrieved 2011-04-08.
↑ Edmund Sanders (June 26, 2011). "Israel urged to speak directly to Arab world". Los Angeles Times.
↑ Ronen, Gil. "Video: Dr. Mordechai Kedar on Al-Jazeera, Eloquent and Unafraid". Israel National News. Retrieved 2011-04-08.

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Name	Kedar, Mordechai
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Short description	Israeli colonel
Date of birth	1952
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