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Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future

Friendly Fire: How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future

David, Anthony
Ross, Dennis
Ayalon, Ami

Paperback

Series: Truth to Power

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceIsrael & Palestine History

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ISBN10: 1586422979
ISBN13: 9781586422974
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: Sep 7 2021
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
FINALIST -- The National Jewish Book Award

In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. Ayalon is a realist, not an idealist, and many who consider themselves Zionists will regard as radical his conclusions about what Israel must do to achieve relative peace and security and to sustain itself as a Jewish homeland and a liberal democracy.

As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for the enemy and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian public will support violence, because they have nothing to lose. Researching and writing Friendly Fire, he came to understand that his patriotic life had blinded him to the self-defeating nature of policies that have undermined Israel's civil society while heaping humiliation upon its Palestinian neighbors.

If Israel becomes an Orwellian dystopia, Ayalon writes, it won't be thanks to a handful of theologians dragging us into the dark past. The secular majority will lead us there motivated by fear and propelled by silence.

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