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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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London
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Tony Robert Judt
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After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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