Avi Shlaim, crank.

“By the waters of Zion, there we sat down, and there we wept, when we remembered Babylon.”

A propaganda tool that Arafat quickly seized upon.

Shabtai Teveth—Israeli journalist, prolific historian, and biographer of David Ben-Gurion—passed away last November. Martin Kramer writes that Teveth “knew the flaws of Israel’s founders perfectly. . .