"From Beirut to Jerusalem"

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This paper discusses the book, "From Beirut to Jerusalem", which was written by Thomas Friedman long before today's current climate of heightened awareness of terrorism's impact upon the West. The paper contends that the book functions more as a snapshot of history than as a living picture of today's current events and concerns. The paper explores the political rubric and analysis applied by the author to the civil war in Beirut that was transpiring all around him, even infiltrating his own hotel at some points, claiming that it remains compelling from a political, as well as a human, narrative point of view.

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"Thomas Friedman's From Beirut to Jerusalem was written in 1989, after the author's tenure as the New York Times correspondent in Beirut. He was the first Jewish correspondent to the region, and it was considered, at the time, a daring act for this paper to engage in such a "statement". Friedman's balanced and personally revealing, soul-searching analysis in this text is a testimony to the fact that, no matter how much criticism has been leveled at this paper by other aspects of the media since, the New York Times certainly made the right decision in picky Friedman to ask the needed, probing questions about the violence transpiring in the region at the time. He emerges as both unbiased and likeable in his self-presentation."

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