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...extensive section on Truman, Perret puts forward an account of Israeli independence so anti-Zionist that it makes Jimmy Carter look like a Likudnik...
...Diaspora. The resurrection of a dormant language, Hebrew, for everyday use, a constantly renewed and invented tongue that has helped compose a functioning society, and democracy, out of the disparate characters and cultures that have come to the Promised Land from Poland, Morocco, Ethiopia, Mexico, everywhere. The earlier Zionist settlers had paved the way over several generations, but Israel from the moment of its beginning in 1948 was an act of collective will and courage, a valor that arose in part out of desperation. A flourishing culture. Universities, clinics, industries, social welfare, housing, an agricultural system watered by a complex...
...thought he meant Canaan and sent the children of Israel there. The Jews turn on Moses and say, ''You idiot! We could have had Canada, instead of this miserable godforsaken Middle Eastern blight, surrounded by sand and Arabs!'' The Zionist vision came to earth in a place of maximum inconvenience and danger. Multiple realities are always at work in Israel. Palestinians throw stones in the territories. Ultra-Orthodox Jews throw stones in Jerusalem -- against other Jews who violate the Sabbath. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra plays on, Zubin Mehta conducting, while Israeli soldiers sit on hilltops in southern Lebanon, training expensive...
...west bank of the Dead Sea.'' Dayan does not ''want to offer Arabs second-class citizenship.'' The Arabs must leave, or be persuaded to leave through a requirement of national service or high taxes. ''They should have 48 hours in which to sign a loyalty oath to the Zionist state. Otherwise they will be expelled in trucks.'' Dayan hates the American television networks, which he regards as virtually ! Palestinian terrorist weapons, a judgment heard often. ''Their message to the Israelis is 'Don't be brutal. Be moral.' Fine. We can be moral and surrender the territories, and after that...
...people the exhausting obligations of revenge. A curse of the Middle East is that almost nothing there is ever forgotten. Part of the difference is physical space: Americans had an enormous continent to flow into, an expanse in which to lose themselves and some of their obsessions. Like the Zionist pioneers, Americans coming to the new land encountered people already in residence, and solved the problem harshly enough. Some Israelis on the far right wish they could settle their dispute with the native Arabs as easily and brutally as the Americans did with the Indians, and without the witness...