The Siege

The Saga of Israel and Zionism

by Conor Cruise O’Brien

1986 798 pages eng

**The Siege: The Saga of Israel and Zionism** is a 1986 book of political history written by the Irish statesman and intellectual Conor Cruise O’Brien. Comparing Israel and Ireland, two states created in the 20th century by national liberation movements, O'Brien wrote, "Ireland is not a problem b…