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Exilio en Bowery es una constatación de lo particular de la búsqueda de Israel Centeno, este libro es la confluencia de géneros narrativos, que tiene a la novela de aventuras como eje. Si pensamos por ejemplo en el Cadáver perdido de Stevenson, donde lo azaroso va hilvanando sucesos poco verosímiles, pero que se dejan arrastrar por lo categórico de la anécdota, se podría encontrar una de las características del Exilio..., la reacción hacia la verosimilitud de la novela tradicional. El uso es el de la desmesura en una historia por momentos delirante. La novísima novela se ha querido imponer en el pastiche, lo fragmentario, la parodia o la unción de géneros para enfrentar el desconcierto de las utopías y de la ideología de la debacle. Israel Centeno se adscribe a esta desazón y su postura narrativa es el tratamiento de la hipérbole de la anécdota en el Exilio..., dicho en otras palabras se postula en los géneros literarios de la tradición para afirmar cualquier desplazamiento de sus personajes, sin embargo utiliza la parodia para hacernos más evidente la ironía. Qué más irónico que las aventuras de unos expatriados, que en Caracas habían sido promotores culturales de toda índole, profesores, investigadores y toda una especie que nos es bastante cercana, y que intentan volver a su patria con la idea de gobernar nuevamente los estamentos culturales. Para ello se tienen que premunir de un soneto escrito por el Tirano Aguirre, una estatuilla en la casa de Frida Khalo y una estrella de siete puntas romas. La hilación de sucesos nos descubre la mención de los espacios oscuros a lo Lovecraft y por otro lado la lógica sutil de la novela negra a lo Chandler. ¿Cómo es posible este enjambre de géneros y subgéneros sin que se entorpezcan unos con otros y la anécdota continúe con la fruición necesaria? Se puede intentar un símil: se ha comparado a El obsceno pájaro de la noche en su estructura, con el Museo Pompidou de París, ese tipo de arquitectura está construida dejando ver las cañerías y todo el sistema de drenaje que le es necesario a un edificio para su funcionamiento, es decir éste se verá en su contundencia sólo desde adentro, donde los espacios están replanteados. Al decir esto de la novela de José Donoso, se ha querido subrayar la vocación autorreflexiva de aquella novela, si bien para ésta fue el plano de las voces narrativas que involucraban los diferentes ejes de punto de vista, en el Exilio en Bowery ha sido el trasiego de los géneros narrativos. Lo explícito de su costura nos demuestra de inmediato la imantación de su verdadero centro, que en el caso de Israel Centeno ha sido la constante desde sus primeros escritos: la indagación en el lenguaje. Sólo es posible conciliar, como en el caso del Exilio..., personajes al habla lírica de los cuadernos de las Tortugas Ninjas y la primera persona por momentos escatológica que nos entrega la mayor parte de la novela.

Una de las decisiones de John Huston fue la de hacer una obra singular dentro de lo diverso de los géneros. Huston se paseó por el policial, el realismo y la especulación de lo fantástico con lo necesario del desesperado, quizá el único asidero de un tipo de artista; la posibilidad última de desdecirse a cada momento. Esta podría ser la única vertiente de la obra exquisita, el asombro de deliberar con la incógnita de volver a empezar cada vez en sus ripios, el prodigio de reinventarse a sí misma. Dentro de esta perspectiva, la obra de Israel Centeno no se muestra tan distinta. Centeno desde Calletania, su primera obra, nos involucra en la estrategia del desconcierto en el ámbito de los géneros narrativos. Calletania se nos visualizaba como un fresco de la marginalidad caraqueña, con la elocuencia de la crónica puesta a exacerbar la utopía disuelta; los tiempos de la época puestos a la intemperie de los vientos, las preguntas irresolutas de las miserias inolvidables. Una Ifigenia en la redención de la trama, una lamentación de los seres precisos en el sonido de la noche emergente. Sólo la mención de Catia por Centeno nos entrega los inolvidables reductos a la manera de Balzac o hacia esa forma de realismo, pleno de un lenguaje dosificado en el lirismo. Su segundo libro, El rabo del diablo, pareciera una extensión de aquella novela, sin embargo, Centeno incursiona en relatos de poco trasiego, entre ellos el erótico duro que colinda con la pornografía, como lo mencionó Salvador Garmendia en el bautizo de ese libro. El lenguaje de El rabo del diablo se nos torna despojado y efectivo, en sus rasgos se nos presenta como una bisagra en la obra de nuestro autor, para con Hilo de cometa y Otras iniciaciones, volver nuevamente, sobre todo con Hilo de cometa, a un redomado acento lírico, difícil de igualar.

Exilio en Bowery es una constatación de lo particular de la búsqueda de Israel Centeno, este libro es la confluencia de géneros narrativos, que tiene a la novela de aventuras como eje. Si pensamos por ejemplo en el Cadáver perdido de Stevenson, donde lo azaroso va hilvanando sucesos poco verosímiles, pero que se dejan arrastrar por lo categórico de la anécdota, se podría encontrar una de las características del Exilio..., la reacción hacia la verosimilitud de la novela tradicional. El uso es el de la desmesura en una historia por momentos delirante. La novísima novela se ha querido imponer en el pastiche, lo fragmentario, la parodia o la unción de géneros para enfrentar el desconcierto de las utopías y de la ideología de la debacle. Israel Centeno se adscribe a esta desazón y su postura narrativa es el tratamiento de la hipérbole de la anécdota en el Exilio..., dicho en otras palabras se postula en los géneros literarios de la tradición para afirmar cualquier desplazamiento de sus personajes, sin embargo utiliza la parodia para hacernos más evidente la ironía. Qué más irónico que las aventuras de unos expatriados, que en Caracas habían sido promotores culturales de toda índole, profesores, investigadores y toda una especie que nos es bastante cercana, y que intentan volver a su patria con la idea de gobernar nuevamente los estamentos culturales. Para ello se tienen que premunir de un soneto escrito por el Tirano Aguirre, una estatuilla en la casa de Frida Khalo y una estrella de siete puntas romas. La hilación de sucesos nos descubre la mención de los espacios oscuros a lo Lovecraft y por otro lado la lógica sutil de la novela negra a lo Chandler. ¿Cómo es posible este enjambre de géneros y subgéneros sin que se entorpezcan unos con otros y la anécdota continúe con la fruición necesaria? Se puede intentar un símil: se ha comparado a El obsceno pájaro de la noche en su estructura, con el Museo Pompidou de París, ese tipo de arquitectura está construida dejando ver las cañerías y todo el sistema de drenaje que le es necesario a un edificio para su funcionamiento, es decir éste se verá en su contundencia sólo desde adentro, donde los espacios están replanteados. Al decir esto de la novela de José Donoso, se ha querido subrayar la vocación autorreflexiva de aquella novela, si bien para ésta fue el plano de las voces narrativas que involucraban los diferentes ejes de punto de vista, en el Exilio en Bowery ha sido el trasiego de los géneros narrativos. Lo explícito de su costura nos demuestra de inmediato la imantación de su verdadero centro, que en el caso de Israel Centeno ha sido la constante desde sus primeros escritos: la indagación en el lenguaje. Sólo es posible conciliar, como en el caso del Exilio..., personajes al habla lírica de los cuadernos de las Tortugas Ninjas y la primera persona por momentos escatológica que nos entrega la mayor parte de la novela.

Al parecer las nuevas voces de la narrativa venezolana se han propuesto de una vez por todas emerger con contundencia en el panorama de fines de milenio, con la solidez demostrada por sus escritos. Allí tenemos la Barbie delirante de Slavko Zupcic, la costura cerrada de los cuentos experimentales de Armando Luigi de La burra y la bicicleta, la crítica irónica a la noción de literatura femenina de Ricardo Azuaje en La expulsión del Paraíso o el despojamiento lírico de los personajes de Milton Ordóñez en su diario narrativo Forbell Shelter. A todo esto se viene a sumar esta impecable novela, que sin duda, nos adentra en otras perspectivas para dimensionar el ámbito de dicha narrativa. Nadie como en el Exilio en Bowery había logrado amalgamar de forma tan fecunda la estructura paródica y el humor rasante, que quisiera incluso descreer en última instancia de cualquier utopía ameritable, una paradoja más de los vientos de escepticismo que nos inundan sin salida, en esta paranoia exquisita llamada Exilio en Bowery.

____________________________Eduardo Cobos. Narrador chileno

Leí Exilio en Bowery, novela del escritor venezolano Israel Centeno. La disfruté muchísimo, está llena de sentido y de hilaridad. Utiliza los recursos de la metáfora, del diálogo permanente, de lo onírico y relata parte de la historia de nuestros pueblos. Lo recomiendo ampliamente, a todos los que se interesen por nuestra realidad, y a todos los que deseen disfrutar de una buena lectura.

As the author states in the book, official evil lives in the Middle East and this is the story of those who fought it back. This shocking book reveals the pure, unadultered terror the State of Israel inflicted on this sad land. Both the pictures and the prose hit home the brutality of what Israel did (and is doing) to the Palestinian people. Some of the conclusions, written in 1982/83, hauntingly resonate today with a clarity that only those which have withstood the test of time can. Clifton, an award-winning journalist with Newsweek and photographer Cathrine Leroy (also winner of numerous prestigious prizes) have put together more than a documentary account of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the subsequent seige of Beirut and the massacres of Sabra and Shatila. With unquestionable evidence they have produced a scathing commentary on Israel's brutal war of terror waged against an innocent people. After reading this book (which I have done more than 5 times) you can only support the creation of an independent Palestinian state and hope that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (then Defense Minister and architect of the war) finally gets his due in court in Belgium or elsewhere.

Tony Clifton's book "God Cried," represents the main body of published photographic documentation of the Israeli terror-bombing of downtown Beirut, Lebanon in the summer of 1982, when clearly marked schools, hospitals and apartment blocs were deliberately and mercilessly bombed. Tens of thousands of civilians died in this now forgotten holocaust. There is still some discussion of Sabra and Chatila, the September massacre of Palestinians by the Phalange under Israeli direction, but the far more horrid and extensive massacre represented by the indiscriminate aerial bombardment of the civilian sectors of Beirut is almost completely forgotten, seemingly even by many Lebanese, and certainly by the US media. But until the last copy of "God Cried" is stamped out, the truth will out.
--Michael Hoffman, co-author, "The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians."

Peace, to you and to the Palestinian people, whom this book helps by giving it's readers a glimpse into the suffering those people have had to endure, under the merciless hands of the Israeli Army that seams to get away with all it's terror.

That's all, not surprisingly this book is currently out of stock, although, it shouldn't be, since it's the best so far regarding Middle Eastern phsychology. I own a copy, i just logged on to write this review! Toni is a brave man, too bad he wasn't rewarded well for his honest reporting that has not been affected by mainstream anti Palestinian racist rhetoric.

Peace.

David Rubin's God, Israel, and Shiloh tells the often painful, yet at times heroic saga of the Jewish People's return to its ancestral land, despite the bullets of Islamic terrorism and Israel's internal struggles. David's personal story of return to his roots was fascinating to read about, as was his breathtaking, frightening description of the terror attack in which he and his young son were wounded. He tells the story of the return to Israel's heartland through the eyes of Shiloh, Israel's ancient capital that has come to life again in our times, but much of his very human and perceptive analysis of that idealistic process of return could very well have been written about the Zionist movement as a whole. I especially enjoyed the sharp political commentary in the last two chapters, which clearly sets before us the challenges for Israel and Western civilization in the age of Islamic terrorism. This book is absolutely required reading for those who want to know the truth behind the headlines and distorted news reports.It's the best book I've ever read about Israel!

While in Israel May of 2006, I was privileged to meet David Rubin in Shiloh. This book embodies his passionate ideologies, his hopes and his heart for exactly what the title states: "God, Israel and Shiloh!"
You will finish it with out the confusion gleaned from the tainted media perspective. Instead, you will be informed concerning many things regarding the history of Israel and the present day settling of Jews from around the world as well as why bombs fall while so-called peace agreements are made. You will understand the geographical names of the places spoken of in the press. Your heart will be touched by the effects on the children in an area riddled with terrorists and their activities. David Rubin is a man to be trusted in all that he writes. He will personally introduce you to his very real world where all of the above is part of his day to day experiences. Next to meeting him and standing with him on the hills of Shiloh, this is the next best thing for he will take you on a journey that will leave you thinking you have been there....or....cause you to want to go!

"God, Israel and Shiloh" is by far the finest work that I have ever read that encapsulates the story of Israel and her people, from the Biblical to the modern. The author does a phenomenal job of explaining the history without making it "dry", the face of Islamic terrorism, including him and his son being shot yet done without sounding "biased", as well as explaining a great deal about Jewish beliefs and customs. Numerous books have been written on all of these topics and somehow the author has managed to roll them all into one amazing read! A must for anyone that desires to know more about any of the three subjects!

For those students who do not have the luxury of a knowledgeable teacher to offer first-hand instruction, these audios are invaluable supplements to written instructions such as those found in Regardie's "The Golden Dawn" and Crowley's version of the rituals. Straight from the mouth of one of the occult's most learned champions, Regardie's instructions help train you in the pacing of the rituals, the visualizations you should be experiencing, and - most helpful of all - the pronunciation of the more obscure Hebrew names.

Israel Regardie has yet another talent at his disposal with which he is able to guide a listener to see, creatively, all one is asked to visualize when performing a ritual of a higher "magical" level. As well, his "way" of pronouncing The Divine Names is at a vibratory level that one literally feels - with the physical senses, and deeply into their Souls! I own two other recordings of this specific ritual by other recording artists and authors - The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram - and, I state with absolute conviction that this recording is so far above the others.

Do NOT look at the price, instead, buy this title and you will have the best that I have been able to find in 27-years. Further, the other two sets of CD's in this series are also worth your purchase dollars as a rounded and complete set. In addition, buy the book connected to the CD's series which will guide you through a 12-months, generally, or a little faster or slower as the participant decides, explaining and teaching the entry level rituals required of all members(and some quite advanced)of The Golden Dawn.

Best yet is that most of the ritual and meditative work that you will perform with Isreal Regardie is some of, if not the, best protective and balancing rituals regardless of the Path that you follow in my opinion. Wicca, the protective quality of The Lesser Ritual of the Pentagram, and The Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram are the best rituals for protection - psychically, spiritually, magically and physically. Wicca, take it from a fellow Path Walker - try these products together.

Elder Hermes

This is a great introduction to Golden Techniques for those esoteric students who read much and want to take a break from their reading. The CD is clear, concise, and Regardie's pronunciation of the terminology is superb. Expect more lucid dreams with the very first usage. Excellent, vital, material.

This is without a doubt the best book that explains the basic of Hebrew Israelite doctrine. This is a must have for christians who are searching for the real truth. Josiah explains the true biblical identity of the African American people, He explains the truth name of the Messiah and "G-D".

Every Messianic Hebrew Israelite Must have this book. Buy one for yourself, your family and pastor or preacher.

Great Job Josiah.

I bought & read this book a few months ago, & I just want to commend the author on a superb job of "Puttin' It Down". I realize that the book wasn't written as "Europeanly Articulate" as some others (as far as grammar & sentence structure is concerned), but the core of the message was REAL & it's about time somebody put it in writing. Yah (Elohim, God, etc.) is using brothers like him to "open His Children's eyes", & I appreciate his obedience to Yah's calling on the author's life..."keep up the good work, Bruh!!!".
D. S.

Hats off to Josia Israel for this Holy Spirit inspired work! I've read many "religious" books, commentaries and aids to the Bible and "The Gospel:..." is by far the most accurate and fun to read. Unlike most Bible commentaries, this book provides clear and concise, scriptual and secular proof regarding THE TRUTH. There are numerous subjects contained in the Bible and this book is a perfect summation of what the Bible teaches. I applaud the style in which it's written - "PLAIN AND SIMPLE". It goes beyond all other comparisons in that it uses God's Word to prove what God's Word says. I would recommend it to any scholar or "babe" in the Word. CAUTION: I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK AS A REPLACEMENT OR SUPPLEMENT TO THE BIBLE. I view it as an aid to those who think they know what the BIble says and those who need a little help understanding. The authors advice to "have your Bible in hand" should be taken seriously.

The Green Beach was mesmerizing. Each chapter made me want to read more.I could not put it down.

This is the story of one woman's journey searching for her roots in Israel. She leaves her empty nest, flings herself into a violent Israel and finds herself embroiled in politics, deception and the Israeli workforce. A torrid love affair feeds the frenzy to find herself. In these years, she moves back and forth between both worlds (the US and Israel) for art, for love and for lust.

Reaction To The Book

The Green Beach grabs the reader from the start. The main character, referred to as "she" throughout the book, threw herself into the world of Israel, sometimes beautiful, sometimes sinister. Her drama plays out in the context of a self-destructive love affair and some tense political episodes that point out the discrimination of Jews against Jews. The main characters are complex in personality and memorable because of their distinct, not always agreeable, actions. "She" shows her complexity with her loyalty and compassion to family, friends and sometimes strangers in need. Yet, she can be blunt and self-absorbed. I found the sequencing of events confusing at times, because of the flashbacks. Nevertheless, I got the story holistically and read the book straight through.

Conclusion

The Green Beach shows the best and worst of human nature. It is a gripping story of a woman's fight for survival, emotionally and physically. The author tells a story that needs to be heard as she paints an historical and political picture of Israel from her unique perspective. Catherine Hand's vivid writing style laced with her own poetry and love interests is a great read.

The Green Beach is a passionate and historical account of an American woman's relationship with Israel as she moves in and out of the art world to the Israeli underworld. A shocking story of lust, love and politics.
Linda Payne Smith - Editor, Creative Writing Instructor

If you are at all interested in bibical history, then this book is for you. Mr Yadin writes extremely well and there are innumerable pictures to support the text

This is an excellent book about the "dig" at Masada and the history of that dominant piece of rock in the Judean desert. I have been there and "kicked the tires" in May 2007 and was interested in expanding my knowledge of what has transpired there over the centuries. Excellent historical, archaeological narrative and pictures and as the Israeli Soldiers say when taking their oath on the rock..."Never Again".

Yigael Yadin is a gifted author who narrates history with captivating excitement. I have read several books and articles on the subject of Masada over the past several years and would recommend this as the most informative and understandable of them all. The before, during and after, excavation photos are amazing and contribute volumes in giving the reader the "Masada Experience." This book is valuable for both the novice and the scholar. It's an excellent introduction to what Masada is all about for the novice. The scholar will find Yadin's love of history details and his awesome photo illustrations compelling and helpful for instruction as well as understanding.

After 20 years in pastoral ministry, preparing for retirement, I wish I were back in seminary, with Galindo's book. He has given me a hugely helpful way to understand what goes on in churches. I'm buying a copy for my district superintendent, and my friend who's just starting seminary.

I do have a question: if a pastor canot "cast a vision" for a church until she's been there five years, how does that work for us United Methodists and our brief-tenure itinerant system? And I wish Galindo had used a few more examples, real-people illustratons of his oobservations. Other than that, I'm unequivocaly enthusiastioc - and I do plan to start over, reading the book again!

Israel Galindo's "Hidden Lives of Congregations" affords an excellent overview of the Christian church and its followers, diagnosing the cause and effect of the life, growth and attrition of churches in America. Its in-depth analysis of the mindsets of the average churchgoer, the clergy and the infrastructure of the church provides us with an essential profile of the movers and shakers that make the modern church the cornerstone of American society it is today. Yet we are introduced to the paradox as to how conformity to industrial paradigms result in the failed mission of the church in its purest form. This social phenomenon is explored in an informative and comprehensive dialogue that makes this a worthy addition to any Christian library.

The author leads us through an exploratory narrative as we trace the paths of ministers and their congregations who begin on the home church level, evolving into storefront ministries, growing into the need for their own church building, and finally expanding into property development to suit their advancing requirements. Only we find that the transition results in the church morphing into a mirror image of the secular corporation, requiring a board of directors to supercede the elders of the church in ministering to its greater needs. The pastor grows more detached from his teeming congregation, his leaders forced to spend more time administering to the needs of its members than pursuing its evangelical and community goals. As a result, the monolithic superchurch achieves corporate success as its profits soar, but ultimately becomes a failure to God and man.

"Hidden Lives" can be seen as an indictment of the consumer-friendly megachurch system that dominates the American religious scene today. The author depicts how idealistic ministers become discouraged and demoralized by the myriad of responsibilities thrust upon their shoulders, faced with exponential demands of their overgrown ministries. The book suggests a return to the apostolic vision of Pauline doctrine, the smaller church being more flexible and less encumbered as it pursues its simple mission to preach the Gospel to all nations. Providing a variety of social services in ministering to the needs of its followers is just one of the many excesses that hinder the church from its soul-saving mission. This book dissects the problem at its root causes and gives every clergyman the opportunity to avoid many of the pitfalls on the road ahead.

This is an excellent gift item for Christian workers and clergymen, as well as sociology buffs and casual readers alike. Don't miss out on this well-written, in-depth study; your home church will thank you for it.

This book opened my eyes to a lot of the enfighting that you see in churches. It has also enhanced my thoughts about the spirituality of church and why they worship the way they do.

Another very brilliant work by Kamal S. Salibi who continues to prove that he is a truly most original scholar. His analytical abilities, in conjunction with his unique mix of breadth and depth of knowledge, allow him to to see far beyond what the "conventional wisedom" has decreed as the truth. The unique analysis of Samuel, Saul and David's stories is a materpiece in scholarship. The stories now make sense in terms of the times, the locations and the possible interactions and events. His re-statement and separation of the threads of the stories make them easy to follow and logically flowing. A Must Read.

Scholar Kamal Salibi has set a new way for the academic re-reading of both the Old and the New Testaments. His ability to analyse old languages gave him the supremacy in putting the stories of the Old testament in a proper and logical context. When you read Salibi's new version of Samuel 1 and 2, you feel that you need to run his critique over all other books of the Old Testament. Salibi himself has applied his academic approach to many other parts of the Old Testament. When believers of the Church harshly criticized Salibi's new readings, he answered that he writes what he believes to be historically true away from matters of faith. It is definitely a must-read book.

Scholar Kamal Salibi has set a new way for the academic re-reading of both the Old and the New Testaments. His ability to analyse old languages gave him the supremacy in putting the stories of the Old testament in a proper and logical context. When you read Salibi's new version of Samuel 1 and 2, you feel that you need to run his critique over all other books of the Old Testament. Salibi himself has applied his academic approach to many other parts of the Old Testament. When believers of the Church harshly criticized Salibi's new readings, he answered that he writes what he believes to be historically true away from matters of faith. It is definitely a must-read book.

If you must read only one book on Zionism, let this be it. Walter Laqueur, internationally renowned historian, has created a masterpiece that has stood the test of time (it was originally written over 30 years ago!), and has become one of the standard works on the subject, alongside Shlomo Avineri's The Making of Modern Zionism and Hertzberg's The Zionist Idea.

The book is exactly what it says it is-a history of Zionism from the French Revolution to the establishment of the State of Israel, making use of a wide range of primary and secondary sources in various languages.

Laqueur gives a rich and penetrating description of the Jewish communities in both Western and Eastern Europe, describing the various forces that tugged at the Jews during this period - anti-semitism, an increased desire to assimilate on the one hand and a growing sense of self-pride in Jewish heritage on the other. It was against this background that Zionism burst onto the scene in the late 19th century.

Laqueur gives an interesting, at times funny and at times tragic, of the Zionist movement and its members as they struggled to achieve their goals of Jewish self-determination in the former Land of Israel against great odds, sometimes achieving great success (the Balfour Declaration), and sometimes facing disasterous crises (the Holocaust and the destruction of European Jewry). Laqueur demonstrates that all this was done while the Zionists were a minority, with a largely indifferent and even hostile Jewish community in some countries (especially in Britain and Germany, although they enjoyed widespread support in Eastern Europe), refusing to foot the bill for what seemed a fantastic project at the time.

The book is divided into three sections-the first describing the background to the appearance of the Zionist movement and its activities until between the two World Wars.

The second section gives a description of both the various trends in the Zionist movement (Revisionist and Socialist), as well as the obstacles they faced, such as Arab opposition to Zionism (in the chapter 'The Unseen Question') as well as those who objected to Zionism in principle, and forsaw a different future for the Jews and saw Zionism as hampering it.

The third section covers the rest of the story, as it were, until the establishment of the state.

In sum, this book is an informative, well-written and fair-minded work on a sensitive subject, written by a master scholar.

I highly recommend it.

Laquer's History of Zionism is an indispensable work about the origins of the Jewish state. Wherever you stand on Israel, here is a thought provoking and well-researched text that is definitive on the subject. If you are someone who dislikes Israel, you should at least read it to understand how Israel developed and learn about Zionist self-perception.

As one of the century's great historians, how fortunate we are that the German-born Laqueur spent his formative scholarly years in Eretz Israel as a journalist and researcher. This landmark work is very sympathetic to religious Orthodoxy and its significant relationship in the evolution of modern political Zionism. Its strength is in the study of religious and political Zionism within the European milieu.