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3. Itamar Rabinovich,Waging Peace, Israel and the Arabs at the End of the Century(New York,1999),9;
4. Avi Shlaim,The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World(New York,2000),188.
5. David Tal, ed.The 1956 War; Collusion and Rivalry in the Middle East(London,2001),2–7.