Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End - Hardcover

Gordis, Daniel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471789623 ISBN 13: 9780471789628

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2009

Synopsis

Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future? The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate–filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn′t be better off somewhere else and whether they ought to persevere. Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel , he outlines how. 2009 National Jewish Book Award winner Addresses the most pressing issues faced by Israel–and American Jews–today, without recycling the same old arguments Lays to rest some of the most pernicious myths about Israel, including: Jews could thrive without Israel; Israeli Arabs just want equality, and Palestinians just want their own state; peace will come, if Israel will just do the right things "Morally powerful . . . from a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving. . . . Gordis addresses the exigencies of our time with the urgency they overridingly demand, and with the depth of feeling they inspire."–Cynthia Ozick Gordis has written many popular personal essays and memoirs in the past, but Saving Israel is a full–throated call to arms. Never has the case for defending–no, celebrating–the existence of Israel been so clear, so passionate, or so worthy of wholehearted support.

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Few books can combine the sweep of Israel′s complex and extraordinary history with personal insight and passion. Saving Israel accomplishes this and more, it educates and inspires it readers while furnishing them with well–grounded hope for the future. Daniel Gordis has written an essential text for students, scholars, journalists––anyone concerned with the survival of the Jewish State. –– Michael Oren , Bestselling author of Six Days of War and Power, Faith and Fantasy: American in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present Daniel Gordis′s morally powerful Saving Israel , from a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving, engages in an acutely necessary argument: that sovereignty has significantly changed the Jewish condition by influencing how we think. Gordis addresses the exigencies of our time with the urgency they overridingly demand, and with the depth of feeling they inspire. –– Cynthia Ozick Daniel Gordis′ Saving Israel is an important book. Bold in his willingness to be forthright and politically incorrect, Gordis sets forth propositions which are difficult for many to accept, such as the fact that Israel′s existence is more important than peace and that Israel can never be a copy of the American style liberal democracy. For, as he notes, what is at stake is not merely a state, but the only Jewish State in 2000 years, and the very future of the Jews worldwide, including those who do not live in that State. Hopefully, Saving Israel will inspire constructive discussion and analysis of core issues that Israelis, Jews everywhere, (and the entire West) have studiously avoided for far too long. –– Natan Sharansky , Former Soviet dissident and Israeli Cabinet Minister; author of Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy Daniel Gordis has written a book about the future of Israel that is both heart–wrenching and heart–warming. His has consistently been, these past few years, one of the most engaging voices to have emerged from this time of trial for the Jewish state, and it is impossible not to be moved by his plea for hope in the land whose very existence should be a living symbol of hope. –– Sir Jonathan Sacks , Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth One of Israel’s most thoughtful observers – An American who made Israel his home, despite its imperfections and dangers. –– Alan Dershowitz , author of The Case for Israel

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The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, and even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else. Can Israel win the next military war for survival? Can it defuse the demographic time bomb of a growing Arab population? Can a country that's come so far and sacrificed so much keep up the will to fight? Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in "Saving Israel", he outlines how. Never has the case for defending - no, celebrating the existence of Israel been so clear, so passionate, or so worthy of wholehearted support. Daniel Gordis (Jerusalem, Israel) is Senior Vice President and a Senior Fellow of the Shalem Center. His books include "Coming Together", "Coming Apart" (9780471789611) and "If a Place Can Make You Cry" (9781400046133).'Excellent and devastating' - Joe Klein, Time.com. America's power is in decline, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard as unwinnable. What has happened these past few years is well known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Celebrated "Slate" columnist Fred Kaplan explains the grave misconceptions that enabled George W.

Bush and his aides to get so far off track, and traces the genesis and evolution of these ideas from Nixon through Reagan to the present. 'Illuminating ...incisive' - "The New York Times". Fred Kaplan (Brooklyn, NY) writes the "War Stories" column in "Slate" and has written for the "Atlantic Monthly", the "New York Times", the "New Yorker", the "Washington Post", and other publications. He is a former Pulitzer Prize-winning Boston Globe reporter and the author of "The Wizards of Armageddon" (9780804718844).

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0471789623
• ISBN 13: 9780471789628
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272