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    While Israel Slept: How Hamas Sur­prised the Most Pow­er­ful Mil­i­tary in the Mid­dle East
    Yaakov Katz
    Amir Bohbot
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    Ron Wyden
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    Joe Lieber­man
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    Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Mas­sacre in Pales­tine that Ignit­ed the Arab-Israeli Conflict
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    The Gates of Gaza: A Sto­ry of Betray­al, Sur­vival and Hope on Israel’s Borderlands
    Amir Tibon
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    10/7: 100 Human Stories
    Lee Yaron
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    Glenn Frankel
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    The End of Ambi­tion: Amer­i­ca’s Past, Present, and Future in the Mid­dle East
    Steven A. Cook
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    The Holy Land at War: A Jour­ney Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza
    Mark Patinkin
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    Jonathan Harounoff
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    Uri Kauf­man
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    Find­ing Ruby: The Bright and Dark Sides of a Family’s Fer­vent Idealism
    Richard Roth­man
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    Judith Resnik
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    No Road Lead­ing Back: An Improb­a­ble Escape from the Nazis in a Place Called Ponar, and the Tan­gled Way We Tell the Sto­ry of the Holocaust
    Chris Heath
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    Tobias Buck
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