TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ayalon,Ami
AU  - David,Anthony
AU  - Ross,Dennis B.
TI  - Friendly fire: how Israel became its own worst enemy and the hope for its future 
SN  - 1586422588 (hardcover)
AV  - 416 DS 119.76 A973f 2020
U1  - 956.9405 
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Lebanon, New Hampshire
PB  - Steerforth Press
KW  - Ayalon, Ami, 
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Conflicto árabe-israelí
KW  - Israel
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Política y gobierno
KW  - Historia
N1  - "A memoir"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - 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
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