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Lessons from the Front Lines of the Transformed Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
John Wiley and Sons
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
336 pages
ISBN: 0470550902
EAN: 9780470550908
Hardcover
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A profoundly different way of looking the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict Reporting from Jerusalem for The New York Times and Fox News
respectively, Greg Myre and Jennifer Griffin, witnessed a
decades-old conflict transformed into a completely new war.
The West has learned a lot about asymmetrical war in the
past decade. At the same time, many strategists have missed
that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become one of
them. This book shows the importance of applying these
hard-won lessons to the longest running, most closely
watched occupation and uprising in the world. The entire conflict can seem irrational -- and many
commentators see it that way. While raising their own family
in Jerusalem at the height of the violence, Myre and Griffin
look at the lives of individuals caught up in the struggles
to reveal how these actions make perfect sense to the
participants. Extremism can become a virtue; moderation a
vice. Factions develop within factions. Propaganda becomes
an important weapon, and perseverance an essential defense.
While the Israelis and the Palestinians have failed to
achieve their goals after years of fighting, people on both
sides are prepared to make continued sacrifices in the
belief that they will eventually emerge triumphant. * This book goes straight to the heart of the conflict:
into the minds of suicide bombers and inside Israeli tanks.
We hear from Palestinian informants who help the Israeli
military track down and kill Palestinian militants. Israeli
settlers in isolated outposts explain why they are there,
and we hear the frustrations of a Palestinian farmer who has
had his olive grove cut in half by Israel's security barrier
* Shows the important lessons that can be learned by
viewing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as an example of
modern, asymmetrical war
* Authored by long-time reporters on the Middle East,
the book provides a balanced and detailed look at the
fighting based on first-hand experience and hundreds of
interviews
* Explains how the landscape of the conflict changed and
why the traditional approach to peacemaking is no longer valid With a new perspective on what's really going on in Israel
and the Palestinian territories, The Familiar War is a book
that will inform the debate on the Middle East and the
future of the peace process, as well as our understanding of
other conflicts around the world.
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