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This title in other editionseBook editionsDefending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policyby Zeev Maoz
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Defending the Holy Land is the most comprehensive analysis to date of Israel's national security and foreign policy, from the inception of the State of Israel to the present. Author Zeev Maoz's unique double perspective, as both an expert on the Israeli security establishment and esteemed scholar of Mideast politics, enables him to describe in harrowing detail the tragic recklessness and self-made traps that pervade the history of Israeli security operations and foreign policy. Most of the wars in which Israel was involved, Maoz shows, were entirely avoidable, the result of deliberate Israeli aggression, flawed decision-making, and misguided conflict management strategies. None, with the possible exception of the 1948 War of Independence, were what Israelis call "wars of necessity." They were all wars of choice-or, worse, folly. Demonstrating that Israel's national security policy rested on the shaky pairing of a trigger-happy approach to the use of force with a hesitant and reactive peace diplomacy, Defending the Holy Land recounts in minute-by-minute detail how the ascendancy of Israel's security establishment over its foreign policy apparatus led to unnecessary wars and missed opportunites for peace. A scathing and brilliant revisionist history, Defending the Holy Land calls for sweeping reform of Israel's foreign policy and national security establishments. This book will fundamentally transform the way readers think about Israel's troubled history. Zeev Maoz is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He is the former head of the Graduate School of Government and Policy and of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, as well as the former academic director of the M.A. Program at the Israeli Defense Forces' National Defense College. Cover photograph: Israel, Jerusalem, Western Wall and The Dome of The Rock. Courtesy of Corbis. Book News Annotation:Lest we forget, it is the Holy Land, and one of the reasons Israel's
security and foreign policy is that it does not forget. Maoz
(political science, U. of California, Davis) conducts a revisionist
analysis of Israel's policies from its inception as a state to the
present and concludes that most of the wars in which it has been
involved were avoidable. He describes his version of the ways in
which Israel has used force, from the Sinai War and the Six Day War
to the roots rise of the Lebanese conflict from 1981 to 2000, the
policy of low-intensity warfare, and Israel's nuclear policy. He
feels he finds Israeli diplomatic operations hesitant yet committed
to intrusion and calls for a massive overhaul of Israeli national
security and foreign policy.
Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Synopsis:A landmark analysis of the entire history of Israel's defense and foreign policies and a fundamental reassessment of its security doctrine What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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