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Netanyahu to present Obama with Twain's Holy Land memoir By Maya Sela Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be presenting U.S. President Barack Obama with a copy of "Pleasure Excursion to the Holy Land," from Mark Twain's book "The Innocents Abroad," when they meet in Washington today. Netanyahu received the book, along with a newly published version in Hebrew (translated by Oded Peled), from the Kinneret Zmora-Bitan publishing house. In his travel memoir, Twain describes a 1867 trip to the Land of Israel, which he finds a backward and desolate place devoid of culture or law. "Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost all its ancient grandeur, and is become a pauper village," he states, calling it a country where prosperity had died out, a place of lost splendor and beauty where joy has turned to sorrow, and where silence and death prevail in its holy places. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Spies on Facebook Shin Bet warns militants may use Facebook to kidnap Israelis, recruit spies. Popular denial University of Haifa poll finds 40% of Israeli Arabs deny Holocaust happened.

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