Saturday, December 1, 2012
Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country--And Why They Can't Make Peace
Patrick Tyler. A scathing look at the belligerent mindset of Israel's elite, from David
Ben-Gurion to Benjamin Netanyahu. Since its founding in opposition to
Arab hostility, Israel remains "in thrall of an original martial
impulse," writes former Washington Post and New York Times journalist
Tyler. Tyler ably demonstrates
how a culture of preemptive warfare and covert subversion is isolating
Israel and alienating it from its founding as a progressive and
humanistic state.
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