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The False Messiah is Volume I of a monumental history of the Israel-Palestine conflict ; Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews; by a seasoned reporter with a vast first-hand knowledge of the Middle East. It is the first book to put the struggle for Palestine into its global contextmdash;to show how all the pieces of a complicated jigsaw puzzle fit together. Itrsquo;s also the first ever account of events to address the motives; needs; and dilemmas faced by all sides: diaspora Jewsrsquo; real fear of Holocaust II; the Palestinian right to justice and self-determination; the legitimate anger of the Arab masses at American support for Zionism right or wrong; and the inevitable corruption and repression of the regimes of the existing Arab Order who; fearing harsher Israeli assaults; have tried to contain them. From the beginning; the conflict pitted a well-financed First World nation of European colonialists who held the upper hand in terms of military hardware; air power and capability against an essentially feudal Third World Arab nation. The False Messiah sheds new light on: middot; The early Zionist relations with UK; German and US governments. middot; Zionismrsquo;s contribution to bringing the US into World War I. middot; Zionismrsquo;s role (and that of domestic non-Zionist Jews) in the diversion of Jewish refugees; first from Russia; then from Germany; to Palestine rather than to the US; UK or elsewhere; sabotaging; inter alia; Trumanrsquo;s efforts to provide visas to the US for 100;000 Jewish immigrants. middot;middot; Trumanrsquo;s belabored decision-making processes leading to his recognition of the State of Israel; against the advice of 3 US Secretaries of State and his Secretary of Defense who all asserted the USrsquo; best interest was alignment with the Arab world. middot; The expansion of the Israeli state beyond its UN-recognized borders immediately upon its creation; and how it was made possible by Israelrsquo;s military superiority even from its pre-creation. At no point throughout its history; Hart contends; has Israel ever faced an ldquo;existential threatrdquo; to its existence. As a former BBC Panorama and ITN Middle East correspondent; Alan Hart knew and interviewed most of the main players in the Israel-Palestine conflict (Golda Meir; Moshe Dayan; Shimon Peres; Yasser Arafat and other PLO leaders; George Habash; Nasser; King Hussein of Jordan; King Feisal of Saudi Arabia; and many others). He also exhibits a wealth of research into a full spectrum of viewpoints.