Friendly Fire

How Israel Became Its Own Worst Enemy and the Hope for Its Future

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  • FINALIST
  • --
  • The
  • National
  • Jewish
  • Book
  • AwardIn
  • this
  • deeply
  • personal
  • journey
  • of
  • discovery,
  • Ami
  • Ayalon
  • seeks
  • input
  • and
  • perspective
  • from
  • Palestinians
  • and
  • Israelis
  • whose
  • experiences
  • differ
  • from
  • his
  • own.
  • As
  • head
  • of
  • the
  • Shin
  • Bet
  • security
  • agency,
  • he
  • gained
  • empathy
  • for
  • "the
  • enemy"
  • and
  • learned
  • that
  • when
  • Israel
  • carries
  • out
  • anti-terrorist
  • operations
  • in
  • a
  • political
  • context
  • of
  • hopelessness,
  • the
  • Palestinian
  • public
  • will
  • support
  • violence,
  • because
  • they
  • have
  • nothing
  • to
  • lose.
  • Researching
  • and
  • writing
  • Friendly
  • Fire,
  • he
  • came
  • to
  • understand
  • that
  • his
  • patriotic
  • life
  • had
  • blinded
  • him
  • to
  • the
  • self-defeating
  • nature
  • of
  • policies
  • that
  • have
  • undermined
  • Israel's
  • civil
  • society
  • while
  • heaping
  • humiliation
  • upon
  • its
  • Palestinian
  • neighbors.
  • "If
  • Israel
  • becomes
  • an
  • Orwellian
  • dystopia,"
  • Ayalon
  • writes,
  • "it
  • won't
  • be
  • thanks
  • to
  • a
  • handful
  • of
  • theologians
  • dragging
  • us
  • into
  • the
  • dark
  • past.
  • The
  • secular
  • majority
  • will
  • lead
  • us
  • there
  • motivated
  • by
  • fear
  • and
  • propelled
  • by
  • silence."
  • Ayalon
  • is
  • a
  • realist,
  • not
  • an
  • idealist,
  • and
  • many
  • who
  • consider
  • themselves
  • Zionists
  • will
  • regard
  • as
  • radical
  • his
  • conclusions
  • about
  • what
  • Israel
  • must
  • do
  • to
  • achieve
  • relative
  • peace
  • and
  • security
  • and
  • to
  • sustain
  • itself
  • as
  • a
  • Jewish
  • homeland
  • and
  • a
  • liberal democracy.
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