The Unmaking of Israel: A Progressive Israeli's Critique?How Extremism Threatens Democracy and Peace in the Middle East

Gorenberg, Gershom

ISBN 10: 0061985090 / ISBN 13: 9780061985096

Published by Harper Perennial, 2012

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• Title: The Unmaking of Israel: A Progressive Israeli's Critique?How Extremism Threatens Democracy and Peace in the Middle East
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0061985090
• ISBN 13: 9780061985096
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

“An indispensable, closely argued, and conditionally apocalyptic book. . . . Gorenberg tells us that the Israel of the mainstream American, Leon Uris-influenced imagination is not the Israel of today’s reality. The Israel of today is rampant with illiberal feeling. . . . Gorenberg outlines many reasonable steps Israel should take to disentangle religion from the state.” —Jeffrey Goldberg, New York Times Book Review

Prominent Israeli journalist Gershom Gorenberg offers a penetrating and provocative look at how the balance of power in Israel has shifted toward extremism, threatening the prospects for peace and democracy

In this penetrating and provocative look at the state of contemporary Israel, acclaimed Israeli historian and journalist Gershom Gorenberg reveals how the nation's policies are undermining its democracy and existence as a Jewish state, and explains what must be done to bring it back from the brink. Refuting shrill defenses of Israel and equally strident attacks, Gorenberg shows that the Jewish state is, in fact, unique among countries born in the postcolonial era: it began as a parliamentary democracy and has remained one. Yet shortsighted policies, unintended consequences, and its refusal to heed warnings now threaten its many accomplishments.

Based on groundbreaking historical research and a quarter century of experience reporting in the region, The Unmaking of Israel is a brilliant, deeply personal critique by a progressive Israeli, and a plea for realizing the nation's potential.

About the Author

Gershom Gorenberg has written for The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, and, in Hebrew, Ha'aretz. He is a senior correspondent for The American Prospect and blogs at SouthJerusalem.com. Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967-1977 and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their three children.