The Other Israel - Voices of Refusal and Dissent
For those of you who want to know if all Israelis think alike, this book is for you. With a forward by the respected Israeli columnist Tom Segev, this book is a compendium of interviews of different Israelis ranging from government officials and soldiers to intellectuals, professors and journalists, all of whom believe to some degree or another that "the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory, with its settlement construction and colonial policing, has undermined Israel's democratic ideals and liberal values while deeply compromising its security and moral authority." I found this book interesting because I very often disagreed with what was being postulated by these "dissenters" - and yet who am I to agree or disagree? It's easy to play armchair quarterback when we live such a completely removed and different life than the ones lead by Israelis and Palestinians - the players in...
