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With this acclaimed bill, Barbara Tuchman unveils that today s troubles in the Middle East originated long before the first efforts at founding a modern condition of Israel. Historically, the United kingdom were attracted to the Holy Land by two major influences: the translation of the Bible into English and, later, the imperial need to regulate the road to India and access to Middle East petrol. Together with the lucidity and vividness that characterizes her work, Barbara Tuchman brings alive the development of these dual motives the Bible and the sword in the awareness of the United kingdom people, until they were finally brought alongside one another by the end of World Warfare I, when the Balfour Declaration of 1917 founded a British-sponsored countrywide home for the present day survivors of the people of the Old Testament.
