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November 30, 2020

Barack Obama’s Revisionist History of Israel

To the former president, the Jewish state is a colonial force occupying the land thanks to its “armed militias.”

In his recently published memoir of his first term in office, the former president Barack Obama reserves some harsh words for Benjamin Netanyahu—and for AIPAC—that reveal his misunderstanding of the Jewish state’s predicament. The roots of that misunderstanding perhaps come from the widely shared but deeply distorted version of Israeli history Obama sets forth in the book’s pages. Examining this history, Dov Lipman—who states that he has never before criticized the former president in public—writes:

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