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On Other Websites: Week of May 16, 2011

Deborah E. Lipstadt: Demjanjuk in Munich

Max Boot: The Queen Visits Michael Collins’s Ireland

Niall Ferguson: Dr. K’s Rx for China

Yousef Munayyer: Could There Ever Be a Palestinian Gandhi?

Glenn W. LaFantasie: The Confederacy Comes to Kentucky

Juan Cole: The Arab Spring Comes to Israel

James Traub: Afghanistan Is Looking Like Vietnam

John Fea: All Historians Are Revisionists

Fouad Ajami: Gadhafi and the Vanished Imam

Shira Herzog: In This Mideast Dance, The Key Steps are 1948 and 1967