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Here was a shameless attempt to libel the Jewish State, the only country in the Middle East with a growing, thriving Christian community.

For the first time, prominent American Jews publicly disassociated themselves from the democratically approved policies of the Israeli government.

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The Sum of Parts Is Greater Than the Whole—at Least in Dismantling

Yet it will be a slow death because it enjoys more support among Palestinians and Islamic extremists than Klan violence ever enjoyed among American racists.

Such trends compelled me to stand my ground. I worked to expose Said’s Orientalism screed, noting that the first experts on the Middle East came from Germany and Hungary, neither of which ever colonized the region.

Powell later described the presentation as one of the biggest blunders of his career, a mistake he would attribute to sloppy intelligence and wishful thinking at senior levels of the Bush administration. In reality, every word of the Zarqawi portion of the speech had been written by senior officials of the CIA after weeks of rancorous debate with W

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Fierce Attachments.