Reading Pankaj Mishra’s The World After Gaza, I thought of no one so much as Ian Black, a former colleague who led this newspaper’s Middle East coverage for many years before taking up a fellowship at the LSE. Black was keenly aware, after decades of careful reporting from Israel-Palestine, of the tendency to adopt one cause or another and cherrypick facts to support it. In 2017, he poured his knowledge into Enemies and Neighbours, a definitive history of the “twice promised land”, which drew praise from both sides. The source of the conflict, he wrote, came down to the diametrically...
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