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The Middle East Is Slipping Backward

By Richard Cohen
Back in 1953, an Egyptian army officer was asked by the magazine Al-Musawwar what he would write to Hitler if he were still alive. "My Dear Hitler," he began gushingly, "I admire you from the bottom of my heart." He proceeded to extol the German dictator for, among other things, creating dissension between "the old man Churchill and his allies, the sons of Satan." If the mass murder of Jews... (Read Full Article)

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