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Like Dreamers: The Paratroopers Who Reunited Jerusalem In The Six-Day War, And The Divided Israel They Created (2013)

by Yossi Klein Halevi(Favorite Author)

4.38 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0060545763 (ISBN13: 9780060545765)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Harper

review 1: Tells the history of Israel through the lives of several of the paratroopers of the Six-Day War. I learned an immense amount about the start-up of the country of Israel, and all the differing communities and backgrounds that contributed to the ideas that governed the direction the government took. The leaping between the different characters a bit hard to follow, but the author gave a broad, compassionate treatment to the great variety of people he encountered. Insightful.
review 2: Filled with beautiful, personal, and insightful vignettes about the lives and times of some of the paratroopers who liberated the Old City of Jerusalem in 1967, I still found this book unsatisfying. The journalist devotion of the author to not pass judgement leaves him more sympa... morethetic to the perspectives that led to the Jewish extremism in the 1970's and eventually led to the Baruch Goldstein massacre and the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin. We cannot be careless with our ideologies. less

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