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Can We Talk About Israel?: A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted
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Author:
Daniel Sokatch, Christopher Noxon
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
October 19, 2021
A primer on Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
What The Reviewers Say
... supremely nuanced.
... an engaging and evenhanded, if cursory, history of the conflict, from its 19th-century origins to the most recent mini-war between Israel and Hamas in May 2021. He also addresses some common and contentious questions such as whether Israel can be both a Jewish state and a democracy and if its rule over the Palestinians is akin to apartheid. Sokatch’s answers to all these questions can be summed up in two words: It’s complicated.
A self-described liberal American Jew earnestly and humanely parses the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
... accessible and balanced.
