This wonderful small book brings to an end much journalistic nonsense that followed 11 September 2001 in its definitive treatment of its causes and repercussions. To the Palestinian journalist Abdel Bari Atwan, what happened on that day was a natural conclusion to decades of Arab frustration and Western neglect.
Honourably, but not totally successfully, he tries to be condemning of both sides.
Disagree with half of it, enjoy reading all of it
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