Tel Aviv University archaeologist Israel Finkelstein, who was not involved in the excavation, agrees that it's possible King Solomon constructed the wall.

以色列特拉维夫大学的考古学家芬克尔·斯坦，他没有参加这次发掘工作。可是他同意这个遗迹可能是所罗门王所建造的城墙。

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Beneath Garfinkel's bald, scholarly exterior and gentle sense of humor—which reveals a jagged edge when the subject is Israel Finkelstein—lurks a man of unmistakable ambition.

秃顶、学者般的外表和文雅的幽默感下潜伏的是加芬克尔显而易见的雄心壮志。

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They rallied round after the war, Mr Finkelstein argues, chiefly because that was when Israel's fight against the Arabs became geopolitically tied to America's fight against the Communists.

ECONOMIST: America and Israel

Mr Finkelstein's central claim is that American Jews' feelings about Israel were always guided more by self-interest and personal values than by Jewish solidarity.

ECONOMIST: America and Israel

For Mr Finkelstein, the idea of the holocaust as a unique evil is a Zionist fabrication, designed to shield Israel from criticism and smear those who question its policies.

ECONOMIST: Hitler��s death camps