The Siege
**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 but a conflict. Conflicts don't have solutions. They have outcomes. That is also true of Israel's situation". In a later interview, he cautioned that while there are parallels between the political sit
