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    <body><![CDATA[This book is about the Arab culture, the creation of the State of Israel and how the Palestinians became refugees.  Great book but makes you despair about ever being able to come to a resolution in the Middle East.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Although this book seems to divide the good/bad characters along cultural lines, possibly from some biased thinking from Uris himself, I think it should be required reading for every high school student so they might better understand the (general) mentality of some cultures from the Middle East.  D...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24707987">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I got to page 115 and I'm done. I rarely give up on a book. But I'm through with this one. <br/><br/>Here is why: I would classify this book as 60% interesting story. Good characters, intriguing plot and I'm enjoying the stuff I'm learning about the Jews and Arabs...fascinating. Then there is the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40433255">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[On a purely aesthetic level, I enjoyed this book.  Judging it purely as a novel, I'd rate it higher; I like Uris's writing style and the plot drew me in.  But as a work of historical fiction, it scores lower for me.   Without knowing enough about the Arab-Israeli conflict to be able to specifically ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13836713">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A certainly biased look at the origins of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, as it was written by Jewish Leon Uris. It leaves doubts in my mind as a reader as to how fictional or nonfictional some of these events are. I understand it's a fictional novel, but the book spends a lot of time trying to pa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14366052">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The book was a fascinating read of Arab and Islamic culture.  The Arabs refused to do more than the miniumun amount of work and therefore were amazed to see the hard work of the Jews and some Europeans. This was 566 pages of Arabs sitting around in squalor complaining and expecting someone to come a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78732032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not the easiest read in the world, but a great look at the history of the Palestinian refugees.  I was amazed by the fact that the story is told from the Arab point of view, yet it is the Jews that come across as reasonable, honest, desiring of peace, etc.  <br/><br/>This book has definitely given...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28247046">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I think this is the edition I read. I don't know what difference that makes. I was very impressed by the difference in attitude between western thought and Arab thought. Our thought is for the care for the individual and their's seems to be centered on pride and tradition no matter about the individ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68453698">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Very interesting.  Again, typical Uris, creates the same character (His protagonists all have the same dimensions- they all tend to be 6'3 and 225lbs) then takes him through a whirlwind of the time of that particular people, bathing the reader in all manner of powerful detail.  For instance, in the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82366867">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The Haj is a book which forms a number of opinions on Islam, Chritianity and the Jewish religion. It gets a little bit difficult to digest all the interconnections among the 3 religions, however the author does a great job in explaning the events. <br/><br/>What did i learn from it??? <br/>Well, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3950766">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an incredibly fascinating look into Arab culture and mentality. Most of the blame for the current mess in the West Bank and Gaza is placed on the Arab leadership of the surrounding states as well as the lack of formal Palestinian leadership and government (since pre-1948 Palestinians had NO...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42188323">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This was an awesome book.  It really gave a lot of color to what was going on between the Arabs in the Israeli war of independence.  Alhtough the book was written by an Israeli, it respected the richness and beauty of the arab culture and showed how the groundwork was laid for the state of affairs J...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41040032">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[i think i would give it 2.5 stars...this book is long and a lot of history and background given that is hard to muddle through at times, but what i enjoyed was learning about a place and time in history i had never heard or new about before]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'll admit I didn't finish this book. While the storyline was interesting, I thought the character development was weak and unconvincing. After living in the middle east, Uris's portrayal of muslims is appalling and grosely exaggerated in my opinion]]></body>
    
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