Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End - Softcover

Few books can combine the sweep of Israel′s complex and extraordinary history with personal insight and passion. Saving Israel accomplishes this and more, it educates and inspires it readers while furnishing them with well–grounded hope for the future. Daniel Gordis has written an essential text for students, scholars, journalists––anyone concerned with the survival of the Jewish State. –– Michael Oren , Bestselling author of Six Days of War and Power, Faith and Fantasy: American in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present Daniel Gordis′s morally powerful Saving Israel , from a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving, engages in an acutely necessary argument: that sovereignty has significantly changed the Jewish condition by influencing how we think. Gordis addresses the exigencies of our time with the urgency they overridingly demand, and with the depth of feeling they inspire. –– Cynthia Ozick Daniel Gordis′ Saving Israel is an important book. Bold in his willingness to be forthright and politically incorrect, Gordis sets forth propositions which are difficult for many to accept, such as the fact that Israel′s existence is more important than peace and that Israel can never be a copy of the American style liberal democracy. For, as he notes, what is at stake is not merely a state, but the only Jewish State in 2000 years, and the very future of the Jews worldwide, including those who do not live in that State. Hopefully, Saving Israel will inspire constructive discussion and analysis of core issues that Israelis, Jews everywhere, (and the entire West) have studiously avoided for far too long. –– Natan Sharansky , Former Soviet dissident and Israeli Cabinet Minister; author of Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy Daniel Gordis has written a book about the future of Israel that is both heart–wrenching and heart–warming. His has consistently been, these past few years, one of the most engaging voices to have emerged from this time of trial for the Jewish state, and it is impossible not to be moved by his plea for hope in the land whose very existence should be a living symbol of hope. –– Sir Jonathan Sacks , Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth One of Israel’s most thoughtful observers – An American who made Israel his home, despite its imperfections and dangers. –– Alan Dershowitz , author of The Case for Israel

Praise for Saving Israel "Daniel Gordis has restarted the whole conversation about the country′s direction. His urgent call to action, articulated with erudition, reflection, and fearlessness, could not be more timely or more essential." — Jewish Book World "One of Israel′s most thoughtful observers." —Alan Dershowitz "Daniel Gordis′s morally powerful Saving Israel , from a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving, engages in an acutely necessary argument: that sovereignty has significantly changed the Jewish condition by influencing how we think. Gordis addresses the exigencies of our time with the urgency they overridingly demand, and with the depth of feeling they inspire." —Cynthia Ozick "An important book. . . . Hopefully, Saving Israel will inspire constructive discussion and analysis of core issues that Israelis, Jews everywhere, and the entire West have studiously avoided for far too long." —Natan Sharansky Attacked by terrorists, threatened by Arab states, and criticized by nearly everyone, Israel is the only country about which there is discussion as to whether it has a right to exist. Yet even its most ardent defenders cannot always articulate why Israel deserves to survive. In Saving Israel , Daniel Gordis admits that peace has never been farther off, but he also captures the wonder and vitality of this very special country, painting a picture of a nation well worth preserving. He provides a profound and persuasive argument, not just for how the Jewish homeland can survive, but how the enthusiasm so apparent at its founding can be cultivated today and for generations to come.