The Middle East

I found it very enlightening. I always thought, the Arabs were the ones, who started terrorists attacks. Never did I imagine, that the aggression was started by the Jews, who were due to a number of different reasons backed up by Britain and USA. Now I understand why there can be no peace......more

This is a short read, but I really enjoyed learning more of the modern history, though McElroy covers plenty of Biblical history as well. What I liked quite a bit was the snippets of etymology, all over. This reads like a textbook, which is actually nice since it's nearly impossible to discuss Pales......more

Once you read this book, as a human being you wish for Hitler to have done a better job. England as always had started this conflict and hide away as we see it through history without taking any responsibility and at the end, after over 74 years from the Holocaust, we see that those Jews didn't lear......more

A short and surface level, but nevertheless highly readable, primer of the political, religious and cultural history of the Middle East. It also offers an interesting perspective on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with a decent level of understandings towards both sides, although its usually hard......more

This is mostly a knowledge dump. I found it odd that when Republicans objected to the existence of Israel, the party affiliation was mentioned, but when those who objected were Democrats, the party affiliation was not mentioned. It wasn't too blatant, but I noticed.......more