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Ebook About NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE ECONOMISTWinner of the Natan Book Award, the National Jewish Book Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book AwardAn authoritative and deeply personal narrative history of the State of Israel, by one of the most influential journalists writing about the Middle East today Not since Thomas L. Friedman’s groundbreaking From Beirut to Jerusalem has a book captured the essence and the beating heart of the Middle East as keenly and dynamically as My Promised Land. Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis. Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries, and letters, as well as his own family’s story, illuminating the pivotal moments of the Zionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts: both personal and national, both deeply human and of profound historical dimension. We meet Shavit’s great-grandfather, a British Zionist who in 1897 visited the Holy Land on a Thomas Cook tour and understood that it was the way of the future for his people; the idealist young farmer who bought land from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s to grow the Jaffa oranges that would create Palestine’s booming economy; the visionary youth group leader who, in the 1940s, transformed Masada from the neglected ruins of an extremist sect into a powerful symbol for Zionism; the Palestinian who as a young man in 1948 was driven with his family from his home during the expulsion from Lydda; the immigrant orphans of Europe’s Holocaust, who took on menial work and focused on raising their children to become the leaders of the new state; the pragmatic engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel’s nuclear program in the 1960s, in the only interview he ever gave; the zealous religious Zionists who started the settler movement in the 1970s; the dot-com entrepreneurs and young men and women behind Tel-Aviv’s booming club scene; and today’s architects of Israel’s foreign policy with Iran, whose nuclear threat looms ominously over the tiny country. As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions: Why did Israel come to be? How did it come to be? Can Israel survive? Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present. The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today’s global political landscape. Praise for My Promised Land“This book will sweep you up in its narrative force and not let go of you until it is done. [Shavit’s] accomplishment is so unlikely, so total . . . that it makes you believe anything is possible, even, God help us, peace in the Middle East.”—Simon Schama, Financial Times “[A] must-read book.”—Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times “Important and powerful . . . the least tendentious book about Israel I have ever read.”—Leon Wieseltier, The New York Times Book Review “Spellbinding . . . Shavit’s prophetic voice carries lessons that all sides need to hear.”—The Economist “One of the most nuanced and challenging books written on Israel in years.”—The Wall Street JournalBook My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Review :
Told mainly through a series of vignettes and interviews, this fine book builds toward one overarching conclusion, namely that Israel, as it currently stands (politically, socially and demographically), is a country living on borrowed time.It is, at once, the idealistic, romantic story of Israel's 19th century beginnings, which ever so quickly folds into the initial conflicts with Palestinian neighbors, followed by conflicts ever more intense with each succeeding decade, and leading ultimately to the situation today in which a prosperous and powerful country of 6 million people is surrounded by 3 or 4 hundred million Arabs who, for the most part, wish they weren't there.The author, Ari Shavit, a proud Israeli citizen, sees his country as a land careening toward disaster unless and until it threads the needle out of the vortex in which it now finds itself. In a certain sense, this is a 'Waiting for Godot' story in which it appears that no solution is anywhere in sight. For there is, for certain, a poison cup in this land from which both sides drunk deeply.So profoundly distressing and so dangerous is the current situation that, at least to me, the only possible present path forward would seem to be a long series of moderating mini-steps that might, over time, ever so gradually dissipate the fear and hostility that today governs the multiple 'players and parties' who inhabit this troubled land. This book is not (and doesn’t claim to be) an accurate history. It contains glaring errors.For instance, an entire chapter is devoted to (Laborite) Shmaryahu Gutman, whose key achievement, for the author, is erecting - in the lead up to the 1948 War of Independence - ancient Masada (the mountaintop fortress where Jews made their suicidal last stand against Herod’s Romans 2,000 years ago) as a stirring symbol for Israeli youth.However, the (Labor) opposition Revisionist movement lionised Masada decades before Gutman.In fact, Shavit even refers in his book to the hanging of Shlomo Ben Yosef (“the first Jewish terrorist”) in 1938.21-year old Ben Yosef (in)famously declared before being executed (for attempting to murder Arab civilians in a retaliatory attack): “To die or to conquer the hill (Yodefet, Masada, Betar)” - these Masada-inspired lines drawn from the Revisionist youth movement anthem he had grown up with.Ben Yosef’ declaration is a very well known Zionist historical incident. It seems almost inconceivable to me that Shavit would not be aware of this (pre-Gutman) Masada link.But no matter, for the author pretty clearly stresses that “My Promised Land” is his own “personal journey” and NOT a history. The finished product is certainly personal, and - on balance - an excellent, quietly passionate and instructive polemic.There are parts of it that bored me witless, but there are huge - shocking - factoids as well:- the Ofra leader who openly shares with Shavit his dispassionate plans for blowing up the Dome of the Rock;- Defence Minister Dayan empathetically defending a Gaza Palestinian at the funeral of an Israeli soldier he murdered (the Palestinian, not Dayan);- the former top engineer at the Dimona nuclear plant essentially telling Shavit that Israel ought to nuke Iran before Iran nukes Israel;- technicolor details of deliberate (and deliberately low key), systematic, mass-scale disenfranchisement of Palestinians by Jewish leaders.The author is a bit of a hand-wringing Nellie, for mine - and a bit slippery too, not only vis-a-vis the tailored information, but also in the way he seems to drool at several points in the book over “slim ... good looking” young people (cf, you can’t help it, the sordid accusations against him in recent years) ...... But My Promised Land is a really good, thought provoking book, a quality piece of work. Read Online My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Download My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel PDF My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Mobi Free Reading My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Download Free Pdf My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel PDF Online My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Mobi Online My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Reading Online My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel Read Online Ari Shavit Download Ari Shavit Ari Shavit PDF Ari Shavit Mobi Free Reading Ari Shavit Download Free Pdf Ari Shavit PDF Online Ari Shavit Mobi Online Ari Shavit Reading Online Ari ShavitRead Napoleon: A Life By Andrew Roberts
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