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Ezra Klein highlighted the book as the best single‑volume history of the various Arab‑Israeli peace initiatives and praised its clear historical context. He noted that it explained how U.S. aid to Israel shifted dramatically after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, moving from a low ranking to becoming the top recipient. The discussion conveyed strong endorsement of the work as essential reading for understanding the peace process.
Episode: The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian...
Ezra Klein said Miller's book was the best singlevolume history he had read of the various ArabIsraeli peace efforts.
He's now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and he's the author of the book The Much Too Promised Land, which is I think the best single volume history I've read of the various peace efforts.
when I read your book and when I read other histories of this, that strikes me as still a big part of the problem.
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Ezra highlighted the book as a great source for historical context on US aid to Israel before and after the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
In his great book, The Much Too Promised Land, Aaron David Miller points out that before the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Israel ranked 24th in foreign aid from the US. Within a few years of that war, it ranked first as it typically has since.