[wooly_mammoth]

You mean Israel Shamir? I've never hear of an Israel Shahak.

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Israel Shahak, a survivor of the occupied Europe, died this year. Israel Shamir, a younger man, is still alive. They have both been strong critics of Israeli policy.

The problem with so much writing on the Middle East is that tempers run so high and there is so much at stake in practical terms, that it's hard to find out what is true in any particular case. The larger "truth" that each side wants to persuade people of takes precidence in so much that we read over the actual, smaller truths about any particular event, person or situation.