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If a conclusive disrespecting of Genesis was required, wouldn't you think R. Crumb was the man for the job?

A shrewd history of why US presidents have failed to make Israel accept a plan for regional peace.

An authoritative new biography of Jordan's King Hussein offers an absorbing diplomatic history of the Middle East.

Sixty years after the founding of the State of Israel, the long conflict with the Palestinians, and with the Arab world at large, casts a pall over Israeli life.

Israel's strategy in 1948 continues today: Make life so awful for
Palestinians that most will depart, leaving a few bankrupt ghettos as
memorials to the hopes for a Palestinian state.

For the last three and a half years the Israeli army has deployed
American-supplied
F-16 fighter jets, Apache helicopters, armored Caterpillar bulldozers
and Merkava tanks powered by engines

Without it, no state can endure as a representative of the Jewish
nature.

Flirtatious and ferocious at the same time, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stamps the world stage over Kosovo, threatening fire from heaven if Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic does no

Somewhat impudently for a man taken in adultery, Henry Hyde compares himself to Jesus Christ.