books.google.ca - More than a decade before Israel’s New Historians revolutionized the study of Israeli history, English journalist David Hirst wrote The Gun and the Olive Branch, a classic, myth-breaking general history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Hirst, former Middle East correspondent of the Guardian, traces...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_gun_and_the_olive_branch.html?id=Oisa_1Dc69kC&q=Irgun&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe gun and the olive branch