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Michael B. Oren: Power, Faith, and Fantasy

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pineapple_scurf
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Posted: 02.09.07, 06:16 PM
This is a fascinating look at the history of America's attitudes toward the Middle East. The book sounds like it's thoughtful and full of surprises...

Like the fact that an ancestor of Los Bushes, also called George Bush, wrote a book in 1844 called The Valley of Visions about his desire for the Jews to return to Palestine. This interested me sufficiently to Google it, where I found this quote on Ancestor Bush's book:
Such restitution would benefit not only the Jews but all of mankind, forming a “link of communication” between humanity and God. “It will blaze in notoriety,” Bush foretold. “It will flash a splendid demonstration upon all kindreds and tongues of the truth.”
(from here: http://jpundit.typepad.com/jci/2007/...3_and_bus.html

He also hints at how the Statue of Liberty originally wore a veil on her face (what?!) and how the original version of the Star Spangled Banner mentioned Arabs bowing to us. Unfortunartely he only uses those pieces of information as teasers for the book and doesn't elaborate on them any, but he does elaborate on plenty of little known facts...like Thomas Jefferson's Middle East policy. Who knew he had one?
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