It could be that it takes a fresh set of eyes — say, someone from down under — to give us a fresh look at the Middle East. That someone just might be Paul McGeough, a foreign correspondent and Australian Journalist of the Year (twice). In "Kill Khalid: The Failed Mossad Assassination of Khalid Mishal and the Rise of Hamas" (The New Press, 477 pages, $26.95), McGeough uses an episode in the ongoing death match between Israel and Hamas as a springboard to illuminate all of ...

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