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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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An essential and accessible introduction to one of the most complex, controversial topics in the world, from a leading expert on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
When it comes to Israel and Palestine, it can be hard to know what to say. Daniel Sokatch gets it. He heads the New Israel Fund, an organization dedicated to equality and democracy for all Israelis--Arab, Jewish, and otherwise. The question he gets asked, on an almost daily basis, is, "Can't you just explain the Israel situation to me? In, like, 10 minutes or less?" This book is his timely and much-needed answer.
Can We Talk About Israel? tells the story of that country and explores why so many people feel so strongly about it without actually understanding it very well at all. Sokatch grapples with a century-long struggle between two peoples that both perceive themselves as (and indeed are) victims. And he explains 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-read yet penetrating and original look at a subject we could all afford to better understand.
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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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