In Europe and the United States the Holocaust cemented the justification for the creation of the state of Israel in 1947. But not only is that living memory, which never carried the same writ in the Middle East, fading, it is increasingly overlaid by Israel’s repeated resort to brute military force, inflaming neighbors in the region and alienating supporters elsewhere. Scars (...)
August 11, 2006
Books
Can We Say No to a Friend?
Scars of War, Wounds of PeaceThe Israeli-Arab TragedyShlomo Ben-AmiOxford University Press, $30, 354 pp.“The Israel Lobby”John Mearsheimer and Stephen WaltLondon Review of Books, March 23, 2006
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