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Disagreements about the legitimacy and efficacy of Israeli settlements, their effect on Israeli politics, and if they are “obstacles to peace” are hotly-debated issues, especially in Israel where the topic sometimes seems obsessive. A fair-minded, honest and accurate discussion of the issues, therefore, would be welcome. Zertal and Eldar, however, despite seemingly impressive documentation, offer a thoroughly one-sided perspective...
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At a time when Palestinian “collaboration with the Zionist enemy” has reached its lowest ebb of condemnation and resentment among Palestinians, following the various Israeli withdrawals which either abandoned the collaborators or has tried – unsuccessfully – to resettle them in friendly territory in return for their past services, this timely and welcome volume which recounts the story of collaboration might fill in the large gaps of our knowledge on this otherwise unpleasant and embarrassing issue.
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Six Arab personalities play central roles in the argument of this book: Haj Amin El Husseini, Hassan al Banna, Sayid Qutb, Yasser Arafat, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and Osama bin Laden. But the first two are more central than the others. Matthias Kuntzel’s premise is that through the hands of Haj Amin El Husseini, as Grand Mufti of Jerusalem in the 1930s, and Hassan al Banna, as founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928, Nazi style Jew hatred impregnated itself in the Arab world, and the seed thereby spread in particularly vicious manifestations throughout the Arab world...
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