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THE SYRIAN SUNSET A SWEEPING NOVEL OF INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE ABOUT THE SYRIAN CIVIL WAR, THE FAILURE OF THE WEST TO SAVE THE SYRIAN PEOPLE, AND HOW THAT INACTION AGAINST THE RUSSIAN INCURSION EMBOLDENED VLADIMIR PUTIN TO ATTACK UKRAINE

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Barry Shaw Try reading 1917. From Palestine to the Land of Israel.
It offers the dramatic epic sweep of unfolding events a century ago that forged the establishment of the National Home of the Jewish People in Palestine.
Read about the commitment, the heroism of Palestine Jews and individual Christian Zionists and the villainy of anti-Semitic British officials in Jerusalem a hundred years ago.

Available in paperback
https://www.createspace.com/6830537

and in Kindle on Amazon.


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