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But Israel is also a land of the gun, the bomb and the stone. It is a land of blood feuds and religious strife, among Jews as well as between Jews and Arabs. It is a thing unique in world history: a ...
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History is riddled with what-ifs ... Sixty-nine days later, exhausted and starving, they reached Kupang in Timor, after a voyage praised even by the curmudgeonly Bligh. By unlucky coincidence, a ...