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A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations Author: Benjamin Netanyahu, Binyamin Netanyahu |
A Durable Peace: Israel and Its Place Among the Nations |
Editorial Review:
The Jewish Heritage Library . . . for such a time as this. It seems that the whole world is turning on the Jewish people. Now more than ever, we need to understand the issues. . . and the nation God has chosen to "be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth" (Dt. 14:2). Our Jewish Heritage Library--a collection of extraordinary books written primarily by Jewish people on Jewish subjects--will supply facts the secular media often surpress and a perspective that may change the way you look at world events. This powerful, lucid, and meticulously documented work sets the record straight concerning Israel and the Middle East. Writing as an Israeli who wants a secure Israel at peace with its neighbors, Netanyahu traces the origins, history, and politics of Israel's relationship with the Arab world and the West, exposing some of the most common--and often shocking--myths and lies about the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Benjamin Netanyahu's primer on pro-Israel politics is an updated version of an earlier book, A Place Among the Nations. There's a good reason for the revision, of course: in the years since the first book was published, Netanyahu has served as the prime minister of Israel. Yet A Durable Peace is not a stale politician's memoir. It's a resounding plea for Israel's acceptance as a full member of the world community, as well as a call for understanding its unique security needs.
Netanyahu displays his knack--perfect for the television era but also helpful on these pages--for channeling complex ideas into pithy statements. Here's Netanyahu on the importance of Israel to the Jewish people: "If there had been a Jewish state in the first half of the [20th] century, there would have been no Holocaust. And if there had not been a Jewish state after the Holocaust, there would have been no Jewish future." On the need for Arab concessions in the peace process: "For the sake of peace, [the Arab states] must renounce their claims to part of the four ten-thousandths--.0004--of the lands they desire, which constitute the very heart of the Jewish homeland and the protective wall of the Jewish state." These are the statements of a skilled debater, and they represent a one-sided view of Middle Eastern politics. Yet Netanyahu also provides an excellent introduction to Zionism and the need to protect a small country against neighbors who have waged war against it. --John J. Miller
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
Clear and articulate: 
Netanyahu presents a well-reasoned case for the Jewish State challenging the conventional wisdom in the West, the Arab world and Israel itself. Well-balanced history of the Arab-Israeli conflict; well worth the read.
This book is offensive to my intelligence.: 
I do not even know where to begin with this book other than its continual denial of Palestinians as a people deserving of their own self-determination. Apparently they can be easily folded into neighbouring states?????
The favourable reviews this book has garnered is a terrible indictment on the very intelligence of those that have written them - no objective and educated individual can take this book seriously.
"But if peace is to endure, it must be built on foundations of..."-Netanyahu: 
"...security, justice, and above all, truth."
There are no pictures in this book, only maps of slowly shrinking territory for the jews to claim and live on. I had a hard time reading this book in that I was so angry at what I was reading. The appendices in the back are documents that were signed and witnessed by world powers at various times of the twentieth century promising land and homes to the jews. These promises have hardly been kept. So, it took me a long time to read this book because I would...more info
Israel's right wing and peace: 
This book reiterates the principles of Zionism without taking into consideration the consequent revision that this ideology has been exposed to ever since it saw light.
Benjamin Netayahu, a sworn right wing Israeli who believes power rather than peace is the guarantee for Israel's safety, writes that if there were an Israeli state during the first half of the 20th century, there would not have been a holocaust. But Netanyahu fails to explain why a Jewish community oppressed in Europe would force the...more info
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