Mayer's WWII experience as a Jewish refugee from Germany and member of the U.S. "Ritchie Boys" intelligence unit inspired his deep scholarship on the history of diplomacy.
Hamada Fara'neh, a Palestinian-Jordanian journalist and author who is also a member of the Palestinian National Council, recently published an an article titled "They Stole Christianity from Us" in the Jordanian daily Al-Dustour and the Palestinian daily Al-Quds. In the article he claimed that Jesus, who was born in Bethlehem and lived in Palestine, was a Palestinian and that