Kissing Through Glass: The Invisible Shield Between Americans and Israelis - Softcover

Starr, Joyce R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809239639 ISBN 13: 9780809239634

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Contemporary, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

The United States and Israel are intertwined in a political relationship that is unprecedented in world history. The human dimension of this alliance--a complex dance of courtship involving love and fury, admiration and envy--is unique as well. Like ill-fated lovers, however, Americans and Israelis seem to be forever frustrated by their perceptions and expectations of each other.

Dr. Joyce Starr, a leading expert on the Middle East, explores how the long-standing American-Israeli relationship is often challenged by basic cultural, emotional, political, and religious differences--differences that often prompt Americans to ask, "Why can't they be more like us?"

Through exclusive interviews with American and Israeli businesspeople, journalists, community leaders, and government officials, Kissing Through Glass reveals how the idea of Israel fulfills quite different needs for people and how these fundamentally different outlooks foster ambivalence toward the realities of American-Israeli relations. Starr and her interviewees also address those specific issues that often divide Israelis from Americans, including the "Who is a Jew?" debate, the intifada , and Israel as every Jew's homeland.

Starr's provocative ysis makes a vital contribution to our understanding of the human side of this tempestuous international relationship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Contemporary
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0809239639
• ISBN 13: 9780809239634
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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