A Good Airplane Read
This book is David Lagercrantz’s third
addition to Stieg Larrson’s Millennium series with star characters Lisbeth
Salander and Mikael Bloomqvist. Although not as good as the originals, Lagercrantz
does a very credible job in keeping the series going.
The story begins with the mysterious
death of a beggar in Stockholm. From
there we run into Sherpa mountain guides on Mount Everest, Lisbeth’s evil
sister, Russian internet trolls, high Swedish government officials, and a prima
donna celebrity and although not directly on stage, we have a Donald Trump-like
hotel mogul with links to the Russian mob. All in all that makes for a pretty good
story.
I read the book on a transatlantic
flight and it helped make the time go by quickly making it a good airplane
read.
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Tom Segev, unreliable, when his anti-Israel zeal overtakes his "facts"
ReplyDeleteWhen Netanyahu said in 2015, wrongly, that Hitler/Nazis didn't plan Jews extermination before Palestine's ex-mufti al-Husseini Hitler 1941 meeting, there was a barrage by leftysts going overboard.
Of course Hitler, Eichmann didn't need advice from Mufti. Of course, Nazis planned out extermination before and without the Mufti. Nevertheless, the Islamic Arab fascist leader tried to help, true too. Not to mention his bloody hands in 1941 Farhud massacre; preventing Bialystok children escaoe in 1943; leading Muslim SS divisions in Europe as well as Operation Atlas with the danger of poisoning hundreds of thousands, towards end of WW2.
One of those overboarders reactionists post Netanyahu's 2015 remark is/was Tom Segev (a new-historian "star"), who in his zeal to belittle Mufti's role went so far as adopting (holocaust denier) Issa Nakhleh's obsessive exaggeration of one single Zionist Mr. Y. Stern (seen even by early Zionisrs as most radical, most extremist) who tried to make an agreement, he mentioned him knowing fully well the Mufti was the undisputed leader of the Arab Muslim world and his anti Jewish motivation has never been disputed, yet, all throughout mentioning fringe guy Y. Stern in his article, Segev did not care to explain the 'saving Jews, via migration into Palestine' goal. So Sad.
Saving Jewish lives, (even by this one radical guy's plans) vs the Mufti's exact opposite. However you choose to present it.