Israel had a nervous breakdown when Menachem Begin evicted just 5,000 settlers from the Sinai during the early '80s.
Begin evicted 5,000 settlers from Sinai in the 80's.
When Cohen is not imagining history, he rewrites other people's research, sometimes mangling quotes during his copying, as he did when he took a quote from a 1951 book, Murder, Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate , by , also about Jewish gangsters.