My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace
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WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
The definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, with insights into forging peace in the Middle East.
In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history—Ehud Barak—set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace.
It was a moment of truth.
It was one of many in a life intertwined, from the start, with that of Israel. Born on a kibbutz, Barak became commander of Israel's elite special forces, then army Chief of Staff, and ultimately, Prime Minister.
My Country, My Life tells the unvarnished story of his—and his country's—first seven decades; of its major successes, but also its setbacks and misjudgments. He offers candid assessments of his fellow Israeli politicians, of the American administrations with which he worked, and of himself. Drawing on his experiences as a military and political leader, he sounds a powerful warning: Israel is at a crossroads, threatened by events beyond its borders and by divisions within. The two-state solution is more urgent than ever, not just for the Palestinians, but for the existential interests of Israel itself. Only by rediscovering the twin pillars on which it was built—military strength and moral purpose—can Israel thrive.
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Ehud Barak. (2018). My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace. St. Martin's Publishing Group.
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Ehud Barak served as Israel's Prime Minister from 1999 to 2001. He was the leader of the Labor Party from 2007 until 2011, and Minister of Defense, first in Olmert's and then in Netanyahu's government from 2007 to 2013. Before entering politics, he was a key member of the Israeli military, occupying the position of Chief-of-Staff. Barak holds a B.S.c in Physics and Math from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an M.Sc. degree from Stanford in Engineering-Economic Systems.
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WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
The definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, with insights into forging peace in the Middle East.
In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history—Ehud Barak—set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace.
It was a moment of truth.
It was one of many in a life intertwined, from the start, with that of Israel. Born on a kibbutz, Barak became commander of Israel's elite special forces, then army Chief of Staff, and ultimately, Prime Minister.
My Country, My Life tells the unvarnished story of his—and his country's—first seven decades; of its major successes, but also its setbacks and misjudgments. He offers candid assessments of his fellow Israeli politicians, of the American administrations with which he worked, and of himself. Drawing on his experiences as a military and political leader, he sounds a powerful warning: Israel is at a crossroads, threatened by events beyond its borders and by divisions within. The two-state solution is more urgent than ever, not just for the Palestinians, but for the existential interests of Israel itself. Only by rediscovering the twin pillars on which it was built—military strength and moral purpose—can Israel thrive.- reviews
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"Barak's memoir provides a detailed picture of a man who has lived a full life... For the past two decades, Barak has played a significant role in the Israeli government, and his insights into that country's domestic policies are valuable. A worthwhile addition to all Middle Eastern history collections."
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April 2, 2018
In this memoir of “the formative challenges in my life and in Israel’s,” Barak—who, after a military career, became Israel’s head of military intelligence, then its tenth prime minister, and later a defense minister for Benjamin Netanyahu—reveals a great deal about Israel’s post-1967 military, strategic, and diplomatic history. He lets readers in on debates within the military that preceded the 1976 Entebbe rescue and Israel’s plans to assassinate Saddam Hussein (dropped because of the First Gulf War). He also includes a detailed account of the 2000 Camp David meeting among President Bill Clinton, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and himself—the last significant attempt at a comprehensive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. It foundered partly because of the thorniest peace issue of all: Jerusalem. (Arafat insisted on total Palestinian sovereignty over the Old City.) Barak ends by criticizing Netanyahu’s government, calling it “the most right-wing, deliberately divisive, narrow-minded, and messianic... we have seen in our seven-decade history.” While Barak stints on details about his personal life, his writing is clear and full of colorful anecdotes. This is a significant resource for understanding Israel’s recent history. Agent: Flip Brophy, Sterling Lord Literistic.
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April 1, 2018
A former prime minister reveals divisive conflict within and beyond Israel's borders.Growing up on a kibbutz, Barak was 6 years old when the state of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948. Immediately, Arab armies invaded, the first of many wars that the author chronicles in his vividly detailed, often chillingly tense memoir of Israel's--and his own--fraught history. Israel won the 1948 war, gaining about a third more land than the U.N. partition plan proposed, but at the cost of thousands of lives and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees. Nevertheless, for the young Barak, the consequences were inevitable: For Israel to exist, "we had to win and the Arabs had to lose." The Six-Day War in 1967 underscored that idea: Israel prevailed militarily and tripled the territory it controlled. Suddenly, "we had a sense that we could breathe." Although he knew then that Israel's Arab neighbors had not turned into friends, he believed that "having come face-to-face with our overwhelming military supremacy Arab states would, over time, grant Israel simple acceptance," and possibly, in the future, peace. By 1967, Barak was a soldier; considering a career as a physicist, he opted instead for the army and rose through the ranks to become a general. Among his close friends in the military was Benjamin Netanyahu, "smart, tough, and self-confident," who later became his political opponent. Barak recounts crisis after crisis--hijacked planes, outright wars, the assassinations of Yitzhak Rabin and Anwar Sadat, Intifadas--as Arabs grew increasingly combative, terrorist organizations coalesced, and Israeli right-wing factions gained power, determined to seize land and oppose a Palestinian state. The author entered politics when he joined Rabin's government, served as defense minister under his successor, Shimon Peres, and went on to lead the Labor Party and become a one-term prime minister. He describes in detail his frustrating role in pursuing peace agreements with the recalcitrant Arafat, and he volleys sharp criticism at Netanyahu's current militant leadership.An insider's view of a volatile and violent history.COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Barak's memoir provides a detailed picture of a man who has lived a full life. Born on a kibbutz in 1942, when Israel was still under the British Mandate, the author writes about his maternal grandparents who perished at the Treblinka extermination camp in Poland and his parents who immigrated to Palestine in the late 1930s to escape the ongoing Holocaust. Joining the Israel Defense Forces in 1959, he spent the next 35 years rising to the rank of lieutenant general and chief of the general staff, becoming one of the most decorated military men in Israel's history. In 1995, he served in Yitzhak Rabin's administration and then as prime minister from 1999 to 2001. As a politician, Barak worked to solve the ongoing Palestinian conflict and attended the 2000 Camp David meeting with Yassar Arafat. Although that effort failed, he advocated strongly for the two-state solution, which remains one of the options under continued negotiations. For the past two decades, Barak has played a significant role in the Israeli government, and his insights into that country's domestic politics are valuable. VERDICT A worthwhile addition to all Middle Eastern history collections.--Ed Goedeken, Iowa State Univ. Lib., Ames
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WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD
The definitive memoir of one of Israel's most influential soldier-statesmen and one-time Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, with insights into forging peace in the Middle East.
In the summer of 2000, the most decorated soldier in Israel's history—Ehud Barak—set himself a challenge as daunting as any he had faced on the battlefield: to secure a final peace with the Palestinians. He would propose two states for two peoples, with a shared capital in Jerusalem. He knew the risks of failure. But he also knew the risks of not trying: letting slip perhaps the last chance for a generation to secure genuine peace.
It was a moment of truth.
It was one of many in a life intertwined, from the start, with that of Israel. Born on a kibbutz, Barak became commander of Israel's elite special forces, then army Chief of Staff, and ultimately, Prime Minister.
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