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Editors’ Pick

November 13, 2018

A Masterful Study of Israeli History That Has Endured for Three Decades

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:

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