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“... Morris, Shlaim and the others began to use the archives more critically. Herzl’s biographer Amos Elon observes in A Blood-Dimmed Tide: ‘During the first two decades’ – 1948 to 1968 – ‘the writing of Israel’s history was handicapped by truisms derived from mainstream Zionist ideology.’ Golda Meir reiterated one of these in 1969, when ...”

“... Israel attempted to excise any mention of Palestine in school textbooks; as Amos Elon remarked at the time, Dayan seemed bent on ‘converting West Bank children to Zionism’. For Dayan, Eshkol and Allon, it was hard enough to accept that so many Arab children – the ‘demographic danger’ – had remained in the Occupied ...”

“... felt the same about other bird’s-eye views of the story, for instance the absorbing study by Amos Elon, Jerusalem: City of Mirrors (1990), a book which, perhaps understandably, does not have much presence in Montefiore’s account. You follow the hammer-blows of history on this small, overcrowded place; you get through the next siege or ...”

“... and the London Metal Exchange froze trading for a week. Episodes like this have led people like Elon Musk to think about where they source their nickel. In May, he met the president of Indonesia, Joko Widodo, to discuss possible ‘partnerships’. He is interested because nickel is required for long-range electric cars. The batteries in a single Tesla ...”

“... reflected years later. The first eyewitness report was written by a bee expert from Ohio called Amos Root, who broke the story in his own publication, Gleanings in Bee Culture. He sent a copy to the editor of Scientific American. The magazine’s response, an entire year later, was to explain why the Wrights couldn’t possibly have done what was claimed of ...”