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Warrior Statesman: The Life of Moshe Dayan, by Robert Slater (St. Martin’s, 444 pp., $27.95)

HE was a flawed titan, and after decades of achievement his people chose to remember only the flaws. Starting his career as a modern-day Joshua, acclaimed for vanquishing Israel’s enemies on every side, he finished it like Jeremiah, rejected and hated for urging a policy —autonomy for the Palestinians—his people abhorred.

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Warrior Statesman: The Life of Moshe Dayan, by Robert Slater (St. Martin’s, 444 pp., $27.95)

HE was a flawed titan, and after decades of achievement his people chose to remember only the flaws. Starting his career as a modern-day Joshua, acclaimed for vanquishing Israel’s enemies on every side, he finished it like Jeremiah, rejected and hated for urging a policy —autonomy for the Palestinians—his people abhorred.