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Remembering Amos ElonThe historian who explained Israel to itself.

By Christopher HitchensUpdated Tuesday, June 30, 2009, at 3:33 PM ET

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Adam Shatz parsed the furor over a Holocaust historian's controversial thesis, for which Amos Elon provided context. In 1997, Frank Foer took the Weekly Standard to task for taking Elon to task for his critique of Zionism. Christopher Hitchens celebrated Israel's 60^th birthday by considering its future. Hillel Halkin and Tom Segev discussed some of the new works on Elon's subject matter.

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Christopher Hitchens is a columnist for Vanity Fair and the Roger S. Mertz media fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Photograph of Amos Elon by Caroline Forbes from The Pity of It All: A Portrait of the German-Jewish Epoch, 1743-1933.

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