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Can We Talk About Israel?
- A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
- Narrated by: Daniel Sokatch
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Summary
Bloomsbury presents Can We Talk About Israel? by Daniel Sokatch, read by Daniel Sokatch.
From an expert who understands both sides of one of the world’s most complex, controversial conflicts, a modern-day guide for the perplexed - a primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
'Can’t you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?' This is the question Daniel Sokatch is used to answering on an almost daily basis as the head of the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis, not just Jews.
Can We Talk About Israel? is the story of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, grappling with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And it's an attempt to explain why Israel (and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict) inspires such extreme feelings - why it seems like Israel is the answer to 'what is wrong with the world' for half the people in it, and 'what is right with the world' for the other half. As Sokatch asks, is there any other topic about which so many intelligent, educated and sophisticated people express such strongly and passionately held convictions, and about which they actually know so little?
Can We Talk About Israel? is an easy-to-digest yet penetrating and original look at the history and basic contours of one of the most complicated conflicts in the world.
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- 13-12-22
Informative but quite biased against Israel
The book is OK with a fairly well written summary of some of the vents leading up to the formation of Israel but the author is clearly very left wing (in his defense he is actually happy to point this out) and so the lens through which he sees the fault lines is biased. He’s basically a part of the left wing American Jewish community that push Israel to give up more and more from their comfortable, secure perches in NYC. What he does get right is pointing out that some of the right wing extremism in Israel is getting out of hand. I don’t consider Bibi extreme right but some of the people he is now forming a government with clearly are.
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