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Don Peretz is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York, Binghamton, where he was Director of the Middle East Program and a professor of political science. He has published over 200 articles and 10 books, including The Government and Politics of Israel, Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising, The Middle East Today, and Israel and the Palestine Arabs.
Within a mere few years after World War II the Middle East was remade. The creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and its consequences helped propel that part of the world to what seems to be a permanent and unenviable spot on any list of world crises.
