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Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, by Michael B. Oren (Oxford, 446 pp., $30)
Guess who spoke these words, and when: "The United States is the enemy. The United States is the hostile force behind Israel. The United States, O Arabs, is the enemy of all peoples, the killer of life, the shedder of blood, that is preventing you from liquidating Israel."
There is only one possible choice: Osama bin Laden, of course. The hatred of America, the anti-Semitic rage at Israel, and the hortatory purple rhetoric are all typical of bin Laden's videotaped rants. But bin Laden was actually ten years old when this speech was recited by ...