In questo saggio potente e autorevole, Peter Beinart analizza come la storia della comunità ebraica nel mondo sia stata dominata da una narrazione costante che vede gli ebrei nel ruolo di vittime e perseguitati. È una narrazione che offusca buona parte della tradizione religiosa ebraica e che ci impedisce una nitida comprensione dei rapporti e del conflitto fra Israele e Palestina. Dopo ciò che è successo a Gaza, in cui i testi, la storia e la lingua ebraica sono stati utilizzati per giustificare uno sterminio di massa e una guerra che ha ridotto alla fame un popolo intero, sostiene Beinart, gli ebrei devono adottare un nuovo punto di vista su sé stessi. Alla luce di questa guerra, il cui orrore avrà eco per generazioni, la comunità ebraica internazionale non può più evitare di domandarsi: cosa significa oggi essere ebrei? Attraverso una ricca e sfaccettata mole di dati, documentazioni e fonti, Beinart prova a immaginare dunque una narrazione alternativa, che rilegge in modo diverso la tradizione ebraica e gli sforzi delle altre nazioni di compensare un danno morale. Una storia in cui gli ebrei israeliani hanno diritto all'eguaglianza, non alla supremazia, e in cui ebrei e palestinesi possono godere di una reciproca condizione di pace e sicurezza. Una condizione non esclusiva, bensì codipendente, che riconosce il pericolo insito nel venerare le autorità statali a discapito della vita umana. "Essere ebrei dopo la distruzione di Gaza" è un libro provocatorio che ha il coraggio di ridefinire alcuni dei termini portanti del discorso contemporaneo. Un saggio capace di cucire un

“A deeply important book for anyone who cares about Israel.”—President Bill Clinton

Israel's next great crisis may come not with the Palestinians or Iran but with young American Jews

In Israel, the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli democracy at risk. And in the United States, the refusal of major Jewish organizations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American Jewish establishment’s refusal to confront it. And he renders a fascinating, groundbreaking portrait of the two leaders at the center of the crisis: Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu. Beinart offers provocative proposals for how the relationship between American Jews and Israel must change, and an eloquent and moving appeal for American Jews to defend the dream of a democratic Jewish state before it is too late.

Peter Beinart's provocative account of hubris in the American century describes Washington on the eve of three wars: World War I, Vietnam, and Iraq?three moments when American leaders decided they could remake the world in their image. Each time, leading intellectuals declared that the spread of democracy was inevitable. Each time, a president held the nation in the palm of his hand. And each time, a war conceived in arrogance brought tragedy.

But each catastrophe also imparted wisdom to a new generation of thinkers. These leaders learned to reconcile the American belief that anything is possible with the realities of a world that will never fully conform to this country's will?and in their struggles lie the seeds of American renewal today.

Sara Douglass has won leagues of fans worldwide for her epic tales of sorcery, forbidden love, and heart-pounding action. She revealed her biggest story yet with the DarkGlass Mountain saga, and now, at last, the dramatic finale to the epic trilogy!

Tencendor is no more. The land is gone. But a few SunSoars still remain, and a new foe walks the world.

Ishbel Brunelle, priestess of the Serpent Coil, and Maximilian, the Lord of Elcho Falling, have raised the magic of Elcho Falling, and found new allies against the darkness in the mysterious Lealfast. And more crucially still, Axis SunSoar, former god and current hero, has rediscovered the magical Star Dance and revived his legendary Strike Force to push back the evil hordes commanded by the DarkGlass Mountain.

But their enemy grows stronger through blood and betrayal, the Lealfast have their own agenda, and when unexpected treachery threatens, Axis SunSoar must face a darkness greater than any he has ever known.

"Why do we succumb to hubris? Peter Beinart has written a highly intelligent and wonderfully readable book that answers the question by looking at a century of American foreign policy. As with everything Beinart writes, it is lucid, thoughtful, and strikingly honest."---Fareed Zakaria, Author of the Post-American World

"Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is not of course the first study of America's tendency toward imperial temptations, but it is one of the best, and certainly one of the best researched and best written. Since the cyclical pattern he traces is as pertinent today as it was in the eras of Woodrow Wilson and Lyndon Johnson, this is very much a book with a message: a cautionary message to avoid hubris and to recognize the messy reality of world politics."---Paul Kennedy, Author of the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers

"Energetically researched and entertainingly written, Peter Beinart's The Icarus Syndrome is both a fascinating intellectual history and an important coming-of-age parable about his generation's hard-learned lesson in the limits of American power."---Jane Mayer, Author of the Dark Side

"The Icarus Syndrome is a confident and contentious history of more than a century of American foreign policy and its recurring tragic flaws. Agree or not with all of Peter Beinart's specific interpretations, one can only admire his effort to understand the cycles of modern American diplomacy and statecraft, and his timely warnings about the temptations of pride." ---Sean Wilentz, Author of the Age of Reagan

"With this perceptive and provocative book, Peter Beinart has given us a compelling argument about our times. The Icarus Syndrome does what works of history and journalism do at their very best: use the past to illuminate, in often stark and surprising ways, the challenges of the present. This is an important book." ---Jon Meacham, Author of American Lion

"Peter Beinart has written a vivid, empathetic, and convincing history of the men and ideas that have shaped the ambitions of American foreign policy during the last century---a story in which human fallibility and idealism flow together. The story continues, of course, and so his book is not only timely, it is indispensable."---Steve Coll, Author of Ghost Wars