Sooner or Later, War with Hamas Is Inevitable
Eventually Israel must put an end to its extortion.
November 13, 2018
Conor Cruise O’Brien’s The Siege.
The Irish scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O’Brien wrote The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism, first published in 1986. not as an expert in the topic but as a highly educated and experienced public figure with a writerly gift. To Allan Arkush, it is “one of those uncommon works of political history in which a man who knows how the world works tells a great story with dazzling literary skill.” Arkush describes how O’Brien came to the topic:
Eventually Israel must put an end to its extortion.
AWACS and AIPAC.
Projecting fantasies of power.
Conor Cruise O’Brien’s The Siege.
The mausoleum of the Ḥatam Sofer.
The Irish scholar and statesman Conor Cruise O’Brien wrote The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism, first published in 1986. not as an expert in the topic but as a highly educated and experienced public figure with a writerly gift. To Allan Arkush, it is “one of those uncommon works of political history in which a man who knows how the world works tells a great story with dazzling literary skill.” Arkush describes how O’Brien came to the topic:
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