Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End
Few books can combine the sweep of Israel's complex and extraordinary history with personal insight and passion.Saving Israelaccomplishes this and more, it educates and inspires it readers while furnishing them with well-grounded hope for the future. Daniel Gordis has written an essential text for students, scholars, journalists--anyone concerned with the survival of the Jewish State.--Michael Oren, Bestselling author ofSix Days of WarandPower, Faith and Fantasy: American in the Middle East, 1776 to the PresentDaniel Gordis's morally powerfulSaving Israel, from a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving, engages in an acutely necessary argument: that sovereignty has significantly changed the Jewish condition by influencing how we think. Gordis addresses the exigencies of our time with the urgency they overridingly demand, and with the depth of feeling they inspire.--Cynthia OzickDaniel Gordis'Saving Israelis an important book. Bold in his willingness to be forthright and politically incorrect, Gordis sets forth propositions which are difficult for many to accept, such as the fact that Israel's existence is more important than peace and that Israel can never be a copy of the American style liberal democracy. For, as he notes, what is at stake is not merely a state, but the only Jewish State in 2000 years, and the very future of the Jews worldwide, including those who do not live in that State. Hopefully, Saving Israel will inspire constructive discussion and analysis of core issues that Israelis, Jews everywhere, (and the entire West) have studiously avoided for far too long.--Natan Sharansky, Former Soviet dissident and Israeli Cabinet Minister; author ofDefending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting DemocracyDaniel Gordis has written a book about the future of Israel that is both heart-wrenching and heart-warming. His has consistently been, these past few years, one of the most engaging voices to have emerged from this time of trial for the Jewish state, and it is impossible not to be moved by his plea for hope in the land whose very existence should be a living symbol of hope.--Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the CommonwealthOne of Israel’s most thoughtful observers – An American who made Israel his home, despite its imperfections and dangers.--Alan Dershowitz, author ofThe Case for Israel--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.