Synopses & Reviews
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel is frequently interviewed in American news media and is well known to viewers of programs such as Nightline and Face the Nation. In this evocative and meticulously researched book, five years in the making, he traces the origins, history, and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. He provides the most clear-sighted view yet of Israel's precarious situation among the Arabs-and lays out his own ideas for peace in the Middle East.
Mr. Netanyahu punctures the myriad falsehoods leveled against Israel today by using the facts of history, ancient and modern, to establish his country's case forcefully. He demonstrates the ways in which the Arabs, abetted by much of the world, have forced Israel to shrink to one-fifth the size of the national home originally promised to the Jewish people.
Certain to be controversial, this book is a passionate, closely reasoned work of contemporary history and current affairs, shattering in its revelations, news making in its proposals, and inspiring in its message.
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This examination of the Middle East's troubled history traces the origins, development and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West.
We live in a time of intense geopolitical change. Communism, fascism, and other "isms" are crumbling into dust. But Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, has triumphantly endured. What is the secret of that endurance -- and what is the prognosis for its continued success?
From the rise of Zionism to the latest peace initiatives, Benjamin Netanyahu traces the origins, history, and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. He exposes some of the most common -- and often shocking -- misrepresentations and myths about Arab-Israeli issues, replacing them with facts. And he explores themes that have shaped his vision of Israel and its position in the world:
- What is the foundation of the Jewish claim to the land of Israel?
- What is the real source of conflict between Arabs and Israelis?
- How has the West both contributed to and jeopardized Israel's security throughout the decades?
- How have the Arab groups used warfare to achieve what might have been otherwise unattainable ends?
- Why is the status of the West Bank, as well as Gaza and the Golan Heights, so crucial to Israel?
- Why is any hope for peace in the Middle East linked to a clear recognition of Israel's right to exist?
- Even with the collapse of the Soviet Union, why is a strong Israel essential to the stability of the world?
Netanyahu writes as an Israeli who wishes to see a secure Israel at peace with its neighbors. But for this to happen the battle for truth muyst be won. Closely reasoned, meticulously documented, and often shattering in its revelations,
A Durable Peace sheds welcome light on the Middle East debate. It is a most fitting tribute to Israel today.
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In this examination of the Middle East's troubled history, the conservative, and controversial Israeli world leader Netanyahu traces the origins, development, and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West.
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The Jewish Heritage Library . . . for such a time as this. It seems that the whole world is turning on the Jewish people. Now more than ever, we need to understand the issues. . . and the nation God has chosen to "be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth" (Dt. 14:2). Our Jewish Heritage Library--a collection of extraordinary books written primarily by Jewish people on Jewish subjects--will supply facts the secular media often surpress and a perspective that may change the way you look at world events. This powerful, lucid, and meticulously documented work sets the record straight concerning Israel and the Middle East. Writing as an Israeli who wants a secure Israel at peace with its neighbors, Netanyahu traces the origins, history, and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West, exposing some of the most common--and often shocking--myths and lies about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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This examination of the Middle East's troubled history traces the origins, development and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West. It argues that peace with the Palestinians will leave Israel vulnerable to Iraq and Iran.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-463) and index.