ENEMIES AND NEIGHBOURS
Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017
Ian Black
Atlantic Monthly Press
606 pages; $30
Do we need another history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Most Americans, even those who care about the subject, would probably say no. For one thing, most Americans already know what they think. Israel/Palestine is the foreign policy equivalent of abortion. The debate is vicious but predictable, and in the American political mainstream its contours haven’t changed much in a quarter-century. In the Trump era, moreover, Americans don’t care as much.
Given these realities, even an Israel/Palestine book with a mind-bending thesis would struggle to command
