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2014.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Bob Carr's memoirs were greeted with a mixture of derision and anger. The former seemed justified, given the obsession with airline service and protein-rich meals, although it is hard to know whether he was deliberately sending himself up. The latter concentrated almost entirely on his views on Israel, and his claim that the pro-Israeli lobby determines Australian policies towards the Middle East. The subeditors at the Australia were predictably outraged; Michael Danby's (2014) rather incoherent critique was headlined 'Throwing the Jews under the Bus Won't Help Drive the Labor Party into Power', while Nick Cater's (2014) column, which barely referred to the book, was introduced by the phrase: 'Bob Carr's claim of a falafel faction has fired up the Fuhrer-fawning fringe'.
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