Joshua Cohen and Colm Tóibín: The Netanyahus
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The Importance of a Local Education
He was someone who wasn't going to wait around for the great powers of the world to give him a state, he was going to take it. And that coupled with his polemic's against the various figures in British mandate Palestine, both in the government and also affiliated with Hebrew University, made him essentially unhireable. So he had to make his career in the States. He did his doctorate in the States at a small, we've been seminary in Philadelphia that no longer exists. Then he had to peddle himself around on the circuit. Also, he fell prey to immigrants, let's say, you know, every year that he was a Hebrew University,.
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