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Fortress Israel, the inside story of the military elite who run the country--and why they can't make peace, Patrick Tyler

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Fortress Israel, the inside story of the military elite who run the country--and why they can't make peace, Patrick Tyler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fortress Israel

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

774213755

Responsibility statement

Patrick Tyler

Sub title

the inside story of the military elite who run the country--and why they can't make peace

Summary

"Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit, " writes journalist Patrick Tyler. "They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine ... but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy." The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel's military elite adopt it as the national strategy. Bound by self-reliance and a stern resolve never to forget the Holocaust, Israel's military elite has prevailed in war but has also at times overpowered Israel's democracy. Tyler takes us inside the military culture of Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu, introducing us to generals who make decisions that trump those of elected leaders and who disdain diplomacy as appeasement or surrender. So ingrained is the martial outlook and identity, Tyler argues, that Israelis are missing opportunities to make peace even when it is possible to do so.--From publisher description

Table Of Contents

Murder in Tehran -- Ben-Gurion: the origins of militarism -- Destruction of Israel's second prime minister -- Suez Crisis: Ben-Gurion goes to war -- Israel as "detonator" -- Rise of the generals -- Six-Day War: the military revolts -- War as policy: Nasser & the PLO -- The high price of militarism : Yom Kippur -- Rabin: from general to prime minister -- Begin: a peace to enable war -- Sabra Caesar: Sharon in Lebanon -- Protecting the ruling elite -- Intifada: the intimate enemy awakes -- Peace strategy: the new Yitzhak -- Oslo: wary generals waging peace -- Bibi against the military elite -- Barak: the arrogance of power -- Sharon: the last campaign against Arafat -- At wit's end: killing the paraplegic preacher -- Olmert: putting Lebanon back twenty years -- War (on Syria) war (on Gaza) war (on Iran?)

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