02781cam a22004817i 4500 115533 115533 22259329 BJBSDDR 20230411090731.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 210930s2020 nhua b 000 0 eng d 2021287831 1586422588 (hardcover) 9781586422585 (hardcover) (OCoLC)on1193034205 IEB eng IEB rda DGU DLC eng lccopycat a-is--- 416 DS 119.76 A973f 2020 956.9405 Ayalon, Ami, 1945- 19160 Friendly fire : how Israel became its own worst enemy and the hope for its future / Ami Ayalon with Anthony David ; foreword by Dennis Ross. Lebanon, New Hampshire : Steerforth Press, [2020] xxix, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A memoir"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references. In this deeply personal journey of discovery, Ami Ayalon seeks input and perspective from Palestinians and Israelis whose experiences differ from his own. As head of the Shin Bet security agency, he gained empathy for "the enemy" and learned that when Israel carries out anti-terrorist operations in a political context of hopelessness, the Palestinian public will support violence, because they have nothing to lose. Researching and writing Friendly Fire, he came to understand that his patriotic life had blinded him to the self-defeating nature of policies that have undermined Israel's civil society while heaping humiliation upon its Palestinian neighbors. "If Israel becomes an Orwellian dystopia," Ayalon writes, "it won't be thanks to a handful of theologians dragging us into the dark past. The secular majority will lead us there motivated by fear and propelled by silence." Ayalon is a realist, not an idealist, and many who consider themselves Zionists will regard as radical his conclusions about what Israel must do to achieve relative peace and security and to sustain itself as a Jewish homeland and a liberal democracy. 19160 Ayalon, Ami, 1945- Arab-Israeli conflict. Conflicto árabe-israelí 1538 Israel Politics and government. Israel 3045 Política y gobierno Israel Historia 15733 David, Anthony, 1962- 19162 Ross, Dennis B., 1948- prologuista 5436 7 cbc copycat 2 ncip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK 0 0 lcc 0 0 RR BJB BJB RR 2021-11-18 0 416 DS 119.76 A973f 2020 00000150189 2021-11-18 00:00:00 1 2021-11-18 BK