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Unsettled
The Problem of Loving Israel
By Aronson, Marc
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-41691-261-3
- Publisher
- Seo Atheneum
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on December 1, 2008
Gr 9-Up This slender volume asks more questions than it answers, but that is its goal. Aronson wants to know why people and nations hate Israel. While exploring this question, he looks at history and how Israel came to be; he covers its wars and examines the nation today. He asks how Israel can be both a democracy and a religious state. He compares the lives and attitudes of Jews in America to Jews in Israelboth groups came to their countries from other places, yet they have diff...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2009
With his customary zeal, Aronson speaks his mind on virtually every issue in Israeli-Palestinian relations that has troubled "liberal [American] Jews like me." There's the desire of Jews to return to their ancient homeland, and the displacement—eviction? tactical flight?—of Palestinians that ensued. There's the succession of military conflicts that resulted in Israel occupying the West Bank and Gaza, lands outside the territory originally mandated by the UN; the spread of Israeli settlements in the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2008
With customary zeal, Aronson speaks his mind on virtually every issue of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Throughout, he draws American...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
