December 2018 Issue Avi Shilon Don’t Mess with the Mossad Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations By Ronen Bergman LR
July 1994 Issue Christopher Hitchens A Nation Insulted The Politics of Dispossession: The Struggle for Palestinian Self-Determination 1969-1993 By Edward W Said
March 2017 Issue David Pryce-Jones Shock and Awe The Six Day War: The Breaking of the Middle East By Guy Laron LR
December 2003 Issue Gerald Butt Lines In The Sand Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East By John Keay Six Days: How the 1967 War Shaped The Middle East By Jeremy Bowen Israel and Palestine: Why They Fight and Can They Stop? By Barnard Wasserstein LR
March 2011 Issue Adam LeBor Aftershocks of the Risorgimento Jerusalem: The Biography By Simon Sebag Montefiore LR
August 2010 Issue Adam LeBor The Other Naqba In Ishmael’s House: A History of Jews in Muslim Lands By Martin Gilbert LR
May 2008 Issue David Cesarani The Root of Conflict 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War By Benny Morris LR
December 2007 Issue Anton La Guardia A Hero of the Hashemites Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace By Avi Shlaim LR
July 2014 Issue Adam LeBor 1967 & All That Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories By Ahron Bregman LR
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