Kathleen Christison | |
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| Occupation(s) | Political analyst, author |
Kathleen (McGrath) Christison (born 1941) is an American political analyst and author whose primary area of focus is the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.
For sixteen years, Christison worked as a political analyst for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).[1][2] Between 1963 and 1972, her work concentrated on Vietnam. The last seven years before her resignation from the agency in 1979 saw her work there centered on the Middle East; and according to Robert Dreyfuss's 2005 book Devil's Game: How The United States Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam (p. 160), "Kathy Christison ... headed the CIA's Egypt desk from 1973 to 1977." Since leaving the CIA, Christison has worked as a free-lance author. She and her husband, Bill Christison, have gained recognition as vocal critics of Israel.[3][4][5] Her articles have been published extensively by the Journal of Palestine Studies[citation needed] as well as in the Electronic Intifada[6] and Adbusters.[7] She is also the author of two books: Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on U.S. Middle East Policy (1999 & 2001) and The Wound of Dispossession: Telling the Palestinian Story (2002).[8][9][10]
- ^ Nicholas Laham (2004). Crossing the Rubicon: Ronald Reagan and U. S. Policy in the Middle East. Ashgate Publishing. p. 116. ISBN 0-7546-3961-4.
- ^ Naseer Hasan (2003). Dishonest Broker: The U.S. Role in Israel and Palestine. South End Press. ISBN 0-89608-687-9.
- ^ Euphemia Mu (17 October 2005). "Ex-CIA officials criticize Israel, draw student protestors". Daily Princetonian. Archived from the original on 17 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
- ^ "The Insane Brutality of the State of Israel". Arab News. July 24, 2006.
Kathleen Christison is a former CIA political analyst and has worked on Middle East issues for 30 years
- ^ "The Arab/Israeli crisis". Jamaica Gleaner. August 6, 2006. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007.
- ^ Kathleen Christison (19 July 2006). "Atrocities in the Promised Land". Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ Kathleen Christison and Bill Christison (March–April 2007). "Does the Israeli Tail Wag American Dog?". Adbusters. Retrieved 2007-08-21.
- ^ Davidson, Lawrence Roy (2001). America's Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood. University Press of Florida. p. 219. ISBN 0-8130-2421-8.
- ^ L Davidson (2001). "Perceptions of Palestine: Their Influence on US Middle East Policy(review)". Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. 20 (2): 140–141. doi:10.1353/sho.2001.0136. S2CID 170366557.
- ^ D Hirst (Spring 2003). "The Gun and the Olive Branch". Journal of Palestine Studies. 32 (3). University of California Press: 39. doi:10.1525/jps.2003.32.3.39.