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A review by jercox
The Haj by Leon Uris
4.0
A solid story of the background behind the creation of Israel in a region full of turmoil. Told largely as the story of an Arab young man and his family.
The author is clearly pro-Israel, and it shows through in a few places. But he also gets a lot of things right about the mess that the whole region was, the dysfunction of certain aspects of arab culture, and how that all worked together to drive a slow motion catastrophe. And then big pieces of why the aftermath has continued to fester to this day.
The author is clearly pro-Israel, and it shows through in a few places. But he also gets a lot of things right about the mess that the whole region was, the dysfunction of certain aspects of arab culture, and how that all worked together to drive a slow motion catastrophe. And then big pieces of why the aftermath has continued to fester to this day.