Hillel Cohen is Associate Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 and Good Arabs: The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967.
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"As in his previous histories, Cohen refuses to allow preconceptions and the taken for granted to distort his narrative. He insists on allowing the historical agents speak for themselves, and enables the often astonishing complexities of history appear in their fullest. This book is bound to challenge most readers' view of the past, put in question any naive reading of the present, and further complicate any vision for the future for the Israelis, Palestinians, and the Middle East at large." -Yaacov Yadgar, author of Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis: State and Politics in the Middle East