The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East Joan L. Roccasalvo Up From the Cradle of

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Published: 05/07/2021

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The Gun and the Olive Branch: The Roots of Violence in the Middle East Joan L. Roccasalvo Up From the Cradle ofMore than a decade before Israel's New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth breaking general history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces the origins of the terrible conflict back to the 1880s to show how Arab violence, although often cruel and fanatical, is a response to the challenge of