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The Blood of Abraham

of more than transitory usefulness. They are interesting as history--the commentary of a statesman in the middle of the ongoing conflict--but they do not go very deep.

In only a little over a decade the situation in the Middle East has altered so radically that many of Carter's points are now irrelevant. This is especially true because Carter, as seems logical for a former president, treats the subject of Middle-Eastern conflict from the vantage point of individual leaders. This "great man" approach to the diplomatic and military history of the region is worthwhile, but it has a limited applicability for any time much beyond the period at which the book is written. The difference between Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu in 1997 and Menachem Begin in 1983 are enough to make this clear.

Carter drew on his experience of the region during his presidency and on his 1983 return trips to Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Saudi

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