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What history teaches the Jews: the vichy syndrome.(Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945)(Book review)

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Postwar: A History of Europe since 1945, by Tony Judt; William Heinemann, 2005, about $60.

A listener calls up Armenian Radio with a question: "Is it possible to foretell the future?" Answer: "Yes, no problem. We know exactly what the future will be. The problem is with the past: that keeps changing."

--Tony Judt

IT WAS ANOTHER of those furious Jewish arguments. Tony Judt, a New York-based English academic, began it a couple of years ago in the New York Review of Books when he described Israel as an anachronistic, nineteenth-century ethno-state that should be abolished and turned into a bi-national Arab and Jewish state. All it does at the ...

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