This Burning Land: Lessons From the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [SIGNED TWICE FIRST EDITION]

Myre, Greg; Griffin, Jennifer

Verlag: Wiley / John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2010

Beschreibung

As new condition beige boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Authors' dedications; Preliminary Page Quotes; Authors' Note; Chronology; Afterword; Acknowledgments; Notes and Index. Illustrated with a section of both black-and-white and color photographic plates. Signed by both authors with black Sharpie/marker at the lower section of the full title page. "Myre and Griffin have written an extraordinary story -- personal yet hard hitting -- that takes you inside the world of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the hopes and fears that drive it. There are no punches pulled here. A must-read for anyone who prefers Middle East reality over fantasy." - Aaron David Miller, author. "No other conflict in the world has dragged on longer, engendered more bitterness or defied more attempts at resolution that the battle between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Over the past decade, Greg Myre covered this conflict for the New York Times, and his wife Jennifer Griffin covered it for Fox News, and they arrived at the same surprising conclusion: the conflict cannot be solved any time soon. In This Burning Land, they address a fundamental paradox. Israel is stronger than it has been at any time in its history; it has a vibrant society, a thriving economy, and a powerful military that suppressed the most recent Palestinian uprising. Yet, it cannot find a way to end the feud with the Palestinians. In turn, the entire world supports the Palestinian goal of statehood, and yet no such state is likely to emerge any time soon. Arriving in Jerusalem shortly before the onset of the Palestinian uprising in 2000, Myre and Griffin soon found themselves reporting not on a new peace deal, but on the worst violence in the long history of this feud. They show how the conflict has changed dramatically in recent years as new physical and psychological barriers have gone up between the two sides. The couple takes us to the heart of the conflict, where few writers have gone before. They delve into the thinking that motivates some Palestinians to be suicide bombers and other Palestinians to work as informants for Israel's security forces. Myre and Griffin travel to isolated West Bank outposts where Israeli settlers vow never to relinquish the land, and accompany Israeli troops as they stage midnight raids in militant strongholds. Having also spent two decades chasing wars across Africa, Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East, the authors are students of modern, asymmetrical warfare that has become the norm in today's conflicts. They draw on this experience to offer lessons crucial to understanding the Israeli-Palestinian fighting, and other wars as well. To cite a few: 1) Clear, decisive military victories belong to an earlier era, yet elements on both sides of the Issraeli-Palestinian conflict have a stake in keeping the conflict going rather than negotiating a solution; 2) Controlling the public relations battle is often as important as the actual fighting, and the competing Israeli and Palestinian narratives continue to diverge in societies that are ever more segregated from one another; 3) Actions that seem completely irrational to outsiders often make perfect sense to the participants. Extremism can become a virtue; moderation a vice. Despite the heavy suffering on both sides, many Israelis and Palestinians are prepared to make continued sacrifices in the belief they will ultimately triumph. Myre and Griffin demonstrate an anthropologist's feel for the hidden sides of Palestinian and Israeli culture, a historian's understanding of the larger forces at work, and a novelist's ear for telling the stories that bring it all together. The broader lessons in [the book] will help inform the debate in the Middle East for years to come." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006291

Bibliografische Details

Titel: This Burning Land: Lessons From the Front ...

Verlag: Wiley / John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)

Auflage: 1st Edition