Few issues are as widely covered as the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And, as Walter Russell Mead documents in his new book, The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, few subjects are so misunderstood.
A scholar at the Hudson Institute and a columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Mead isn’t authoring merely another book in a crowded catalog. Rather, he seeks to understand the roots of U.S. support for Israel. And what he finds rebuts narratives that are both common and superficial.
(Read the rest of CAMERA’s Sept. 5, 2022 review at The National Interest)