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Just as a tree takes time to bear fruits from when the seed is planted, similarly the seeds of war have been planted starting with the arab spring in egypt in december 2010. He published his observations in articles in the daily telegraph in england, and in the new york sun. The conquest of the middle east by robert fisk 1,283 pp, harpercollins. Dec 18, 2007 a sweeping and dramatic history of the last half century of conflict in the middle east from an awardwinning journalist who has covered the region for over forty years, the great war for civilisation unflinchingly chronicles the tragedy of the region from the algerian civil war to the iranian revolution.
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