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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