Chuck Hagel's false history of Israel

Joel Pollak discovered something that a lot of Americans (and Israelis) didn't know exists: A history of Israel written by Chuck Hagel.

Hagel identifies the origins of the conflict by claiming: "the
Arab-Israeli standoff was first set in motion by the Balfour Declaration
of 1919 promising the Jewish people a homeland and the Arabs their own
independent states." (68). That is not what the