The title of this 1998 book has aged incredibly poorly but the analysis of how the conflict with Israel functioned as the organizing principle of intra-Arab politics in the 1950-1970s is very impressive.
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"In postwar Europe, on the whole, anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and equally absurd hatreds rooted in ancient religious texts became a disgraced and dead relic buried in the ruins of the Third Reich. But in the postwar Middle East, these notions persisted in elements of radical nationalist and Isl?mist politics."
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