THE JEWS THROUGH THE AGES: A BACKGROUND TO UNDERSTANDING THE ISRAEL-PALESTINIAN QUESTION, by jONATHAN GOLDSTEIN From the last Roman pogrom to the expulsion from Palestine; from the dispersal across Europe to Hitler's Final Solution; from the United Nations Partition vote of 1947 and the declaration of statehood a year later to the power politics of the region; from the undying hostility of the Arab neighbours to the War of Consolidation...