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Said’s book became canonical in many Middle East Studies departments, pressuring students and professors to prove they were not Orientalists. Israel’s history was subjected to withering revisionism.
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
Believing Arafat, he told them, “was the biggest mistake I made in my presidency.”17 Clinton, who had orchestrated the famous handshake between Arafat and Rabin, left the White House without having succeeded in settling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Daniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn

A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible True Story of the Master Spy Who Helped Win World War II
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The Order (Gabriel Allon Series)


Adolf Eichmann had been a Nazi SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) and one of the architects of the Holocaust, a central figure at the Wannsee Conference that decided on the Final Solution, and, at the time of his capture, the highest-ranking Nazi official still alive. He had spent most of his time after the war living under a pseudonym in
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