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"HOW ISRAEL LOST" , The Four Questions ,... Richard B Cramer
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"Israel's support began eroding first - Twenty years ago in Europe.(Israeli
hasbarah pros , dismissed this as traditional anti-semitism)
Americans less burdened by knoledge of the world and perhaps less cynical in
all their faiths , lingered in their loyalty until , these days , they don't
know what to think . This too , I see now in a thousand little ways ;
The fund-raiser for the United Jewish Appeal who tells me he's pitched out of
nice JEWISH HOMES - Or he never gets in the door ,... The dear old Hadassah
ladies in the assisted living complex , who tell me the've stop piking up the
paper because it's so terrible what you read in there about Israel , I don't
even want to look , she says ,... Or the friend from my little American
town , whom I tell that I'm going to write a book about Israel ; No offence
she says (for she knows I'm Jewish)"but that president over there , or , it's
not president , primeminister - I don't like him , he's not a nice
man " ,... Sure , the freshet US aid still flows - But that's the goverment ,
the American people already falling off the bus , the goverment will follow
some day soon
One thing is for sure : Thirty-five years of occupation doesn't make it smell
like home - to us ,... Or put it another way : Somewhere along the line , we
get the feeling , "they aren't like us" Or maybe we don't want to be like them
And this is just one of the ways - One big one - How Israel lost" .
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Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
It may seem surprising that a lengthy exploration of the conflict between
Israel and the Palestinians could be entertaining. But Pulitzer Prize-winner
Richard Ben Cramer manages to pull off just such a feat while sacrificing
neither the gravity of the situation nor the intricacies of a political and
religious war that seems to grow perpetually more bloody and intractable. He
argues that Israel is being slowly destroyed by their continued occupation of
the West Bank and Gaza, which is in turn destroying the Palestinians' hopes
for a homeland of their own. Cramer's book is divided into four questions
about the conflict ("Why do we care about Israel?", "Why don't the
Palestinians have a state?", "What is a Jewish state?", and "Why is there no
peace?") modeled after the questions asked at a Passover seder. It's tricky
to bring fresh insight to the situation in the Middle East since the cycle of
attacks and subsequent retaliations is so depressingly perpetual. But
Cramer ! strikes just the right tone to spark reader interest: irreverent
without being inappropriate, blunt and direct without oversimplifying, and
passionate without being biased. He's at his best in the book's final
chapter, offering advice for hawkish Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
("Give back the land - the West Bank and Gaza") and Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat ("bring one actual lawyer and someone to talk English on TV"). And
while the history lessons provided in How Israel Lost are worthwhile,
particularly to those whose knowledge of the conflict doesn't reach past the
morning papers, it's Cramer's personal anecdotes of the human beings in the
middle of the crisis and his own experiences covering it, combined with his
lively writing, that make this such a compelling read ,... John Moe
