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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. My promised land tells the story of israel as it has never been told before. While shavit is being brutally honest regarding the zionist enterprise, he is also insightful, sensitive. My promised land the triumph and tragedy of israel book. Nov 19, 20 my promised land is a remarkable achievement. I do not wish to leave the impression that my promised land is another book about israel and the palestinians. When, early on, shavit links the replacement of one people palestinians with another jews closely to the phrase change becomes inevitable, there is a frightening historical determinism.

Stream and download audiobooks to your computer, tablet or mobile phone. The subtitle to my promised land is the triumph and tragedy of israel. Not since amos elons the israelis, amos ozs in the land of israel, and thomas friedmans from beirut to jerusalem has there been such a powerful and comprehensive book written about the jewish state and the israelipalestinian conflict. Israel has betrayed its best, truest self, argues haaretz journalist and peace activist shavit in this wrenching dissection of the nations past and present. My promised land the triumph and tragedy of israel ebook. The triumph and tragedy of israel kindle edition by shavit, ari. Fletchers writing is superb and rises to the level of importance that this story demands and deserves. Nov 18, 20 my promised land is an israeli book like no other.

Friedmans 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. A groundbreaking and authoritative examination of israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the mid. Ari shavit is one of israel s leading columnists and writers, and the story he tells describes with great empathy the palestinian tragedy and the centurylong struggle between jews and arabs over. My promised land the triumph and tragedy of israel epub. Leading israeli columnist and writer ari shavit takes the reader on a mesmerizing journey that paints a thorough portrait of the contemporary israeli experience.

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