
Can We Talk About Israel?
A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
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Daniel Sokatch
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By:
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Daniel Sokatch
Bloomsbury presents Can We Talk About Israel? written and read by Daniel Sokatch.
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?
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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Enjoyable, informative introduction to Israel and Palestine
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One sided
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He occasionally falls into the trap of thinking that he represents some kind of objective/ neutral position.
His reading of his own book adds a lot.
An interesting read
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A fair treatment of a very difficult nuanced subject.
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Not completely sincere in its promise
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Are these really the facts?
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Worth your time
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Now I Understand
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Mixed feelings
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