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War. His conclusion: former the prime minister of Israel, and
President George Bush and for- between the secretary of state and
\ mer Secretary of State James
Israel's foreign minister, was of-
,Baker planned government ten replaced or supplemented by
crises in Israel to contribute to backstage consultations and ma-
the downfall of the Likud gov- neuvering between the White
ernment.
House and Department
Mr. Arens writes that the goal and the leaders of Israel's Labor
of the Bush administration was Party.
to help bring to power a Labor ad-
ndre Aciman always
ministration that would be eager
identified himself as
to comply with the president's
French.
plan for a peace treaty with the
He didn't mention that
\ Arabs.
he was Jewish, too. And for good
reason. The Egypt of Gamal
Abdel Nasser was hardly a haven
for Jews.
In Out of Egypt (Farrar,
Straus, Giroux), Aciman tells of
growing up in an extraordinary
family in Alexandria. The Aci-
mans started out in Italy, then
came to Turkey before settling in
Egypt, where Andre's father op-
erated a woolen mill.
The Acimans didn't like
speaking Arabic, the author
They got what they wanted, says, so their conversations were
but the aftermath is a danger- a spicy language stew of French,
ously weak Israel and question- English, Ladino and Italian.
able U.S.-Israeli relations.
Among the family members
(The Bush) administration's he describes: Uncle Vili, the
repeated attempts to interfere in former British spy; Andre's
Israel's internal politics had been father, who considered convert-
without precedent in the history ing to Islam so as to preserve
of the relations between the Unit- his nice life; Aunt Flora the
/ ed States and Israel, and prob- pessimist, a German refugee;
ably without precedent in the and the "princess" grandmoth-
relationship between any two de- er.
mocratically elected governments.
Mr. Aciman is a native of
The traditional diplomatic dia- Manhattan and teaches French
logue between the president and literature at Princeton. ❑

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