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Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted

Can We Talk about Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted

Sokatch, Daniel
Noxon, Christopher

Hardcover

General Political ScienceInternational RelationsIsrael & Palestine History

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ISBN10: 1635573874
ISBN13: 9781635573879
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.27 Width: 5.89 Depth: 8.33
Language: English

National Jewish Book Award finalist

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?

Complete with engaging illustrations by Christopher Noxon, 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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