My Promised Land

A groundbreaking, ambitious, and authoritative examination of Israel by one of the most influential columnists writing about the Middle East today My Promised Land tells the story of Israel as it has never been told before Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis Through revealing stories of significant events and of ordinary individuals pioneers, immigrants, entrepreneurs, scientists, army generals, peaceniks, settlers, and Palestinians Israeli journalist Ari Shavit illuminates many of the pivotal moments of the Zionist century that led Israel to where it is today We meet the youth group leader who recognized the potential of Masada as a powerful symbol for Zionism the young farmer who bought an orange grove from his Arab neighbor in the 1920s, and with the Jaffa orange helped to create a booming economy in Palestine the engineer who was instrumental in developing Israel s nuclear program the religious Zionists who started the settler movement Over an illustrious career that has spanned almost thirty years, Shavit has had rare access to people from across the Israeli political, economic, and social spectrum, and in this ambitious work he tells a riveting story that is both deeply human and of profound historical dimension.As it examines the complexities and contradictions of the Israeli condition, My Promised Land asks difficult but important questions Why did Israel come to be How did it come to be And can Israel survive Culminating with an analysis of the issues and threats that Israel is currently facing, both internal and external, My Promised Land uses the defining events of the past to shed new light on the present The result is a landmark portrait of a small, vibrant country living on the edge, whose identity and presence play a crucial role in today s global political landscape. Read My Promised Land By Ari Shavit – kino-fada.fr Where you re standing makes a big difference in how you feel about Ari Shavit s book I started My Promised Land five months ago, during the tenuous cease fire following last summer s conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza What struck me most forcefully, then, was the willful blindness of Zionist pioneers such as Shavit s great grandfather, Herbert Bentwich, who came to Palestine from Britain in the 1890s full of hope, intent on creating a sanctuary for Europe s Jews regardless of the conseq Where you re standing makes a big difference in how you feel about Ari Shavit s book I started My Promised Land five months ago, during the tenuous cease fire following last summer s conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza What struck me most forcefully, then, was the willful blindness of Zionist pioneers such as Shavit s great grandfather, Herbert Bentwich, who came to Palestine from Britain in the 1890s full of hope, intent on creating a sanctuary for Europe s Jews regardless of the consequences for the land s existing inhabitants Despite the idealism, hard work, and heroism that characterized the founding generation the Kibbutz builders, the orange growers, the ardent young people da...LA VITA IN BILICOAri Shavit, nato nel 1957, israeliano di terza generazione Fu paracadutista nei territori occupati durante la naja, attivista del movimento pacifista, scrive per Haaretz che qualcuno definisce l unico quotidiano palestinese in lingua ebraica , collabora col New Yorker, e con questo libro ha deciso di sfidare i dogmi di destra e sinistra.Palestina, la terra promessa, 1930.Non un libro di storia in senso accademico, dice Ari Shavit, e quelli in uso nelle scuole d Israele an LA VITA IN BILICOAri Shavit, nato nel 1957, israeliano di terza generazione Fu paracadutista nei territori occupati durante la naja, attivista del movimento pacifista, scrive per Haaretz che qualcuno definisce l unico quotidiano palestinese in lingua ebraica , collabora col New Yorker, e con questo libro ha deciso di sfidare i dogmi di destra e sinistra.Palestina, la terra promessa, 1930.Non un libro di storia in senso accademico, dice Ari Shavit, e quelli in uso nelle scuole d Israele andrebbero riscritti, dico io , ma un viaggio personale nel passato e nel presente di Israele attraverso il racconto di decine di storie di singoli israeliani, cerca di narrare la storia del paese Infatti, comincia n...Facing unprecedented internal and external pressures, Israel today is at a moment of existential crisis Ari Shavit draws on interviews, historical documents, private diaries,and letters, as well as his own family story, illuminating the pivotal moments of theZionist century to tell a riveting narrative that is larger than the sum of its parts bothpe...To begin my review of My Promised Land, I decided to talk some cognitive psychology It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern Thinking, Fast and Slow, p 87Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple are concrete rather To begin my review of My Promised Land, I decided to talk some cognitive psychology It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes it easier to fit everything you know into a coherent pattern Thinking, Fast and Slow, p 87Narrative fallacies arise inevitably from our continuous attempt to make sense of the world The explanatory stories that people find compelling are simple are concrete rather than abstract assign a larger role to talent, stupidity, and intentions than to luck and focus on a few striking events that happened rather than on the countless events that failed to happen Any recent salient event is a candidate to become a kernel of a causal narrative Good stories provide a simple and coherent account of people s actions and intentions You are always ready to interpret behavior as a manifestation of general pr...This is by far the best book of non ficion I ve read this year, and certainly the one that brought me closest to understanding Israel, and along with it the Israeli Palestinian conflict.What made this book different from all of the other books I ve read about this subject so far is that unlike most other authors Shavit focuses on the micro rather than the macro...Excellent and comprehensive narrative that helps you understand the history of the establishment of the modern state of Israel and the background behind the conflict with the Palestinian people.I am far from being an expert but after rea...Old review Missing in Action but there are many excellent reviews.A problem of humanity is specialness.The problem for Jews, historically, has not been that they have thought themselves special, what group doesn t It was that non Jews thought of Jews as special in a negative way as targets for abuse Christianity made a habit of this and National Socialism made it a top priority.Zionism created a mirror image Jews would now be privileged instead of abused, but specialness would remain In Zionist eyes, having been targets, Jews were now entitled to targe A problem of humanity is specialness.The problem for Jews, historically, has not been that they have thought themselves special, what group doesn t It was that non Jews thought of Jews as special in a negative way as targets for abuse Christianity made a habit of this and National Socialism made it a top priority.Zionism created a mirror image Jews would now be privileged instead of abused, but specialness woul...I received an ARC of My Promised Land by Ari Shavit from Random House Publishing Group in return for which I agreed to write a review The opinions expressed in my review are my own.It was obvious to me from the very beginning of this fascinating and informative book that for Ari Shavit writing this history of those who developed and continue to nourish the state of Israel was a labor of love The whole atmosphere of this reading experience was one of devotion to telling Israel s story from the I received an ARC of My Promised Land by Ari Shavit from Random House Publishing Group in return for which I agreed to write a review The opinions expressed in my review are my own.It was obvious to me from the very beginning of this fascinating and informative book that for Ari Shavit writing this history of those who developed and continue to nourish the state of Israel was a labor of love The whole atmosphere of this reading experience was one of devotion to telling Israel s story from the beginning of the state to the present time as well as hopes for the future It was done as factually as possible by telling the story directly from as many people who were able to share what they experienced in the context of the time frame in which these events occurred For each of the participants, in sharing their personal experience, the passion, courage, and attitude to never give up on the formation of the Israeli state is a constant The dedication to forming a ...Updated review Just took off two stars after reading this article Shame on you, Ari Shavit.I still think it s a great book, but there s no way I m giving five stars to a work that includes intellectually dishonest reporting And if the seminal chapter on Lydda, often excerpted as proof of Israel s wrongdoings, was misleading, what might that mean about some of the other book s claims Earlier,glowing review If you re searching for one word to capture the essence of Israel, that word migh Updated review Just took off two stars after reading this ...

• English
• 03 July 2017
Ari Shavit
• Hardcover
• 464 pages
• 0385521707
• Ari Shavit
• My Promised Land