From Forward, a review of Israel vs. Utopia by Joel Schalit, The Myths of Liberal Zionism by Yitzhak Laor, and A Living Revolution: Anarchism in the Kibbutz Movement by James Horrox. From NYRB, an article on Israel and Palestine: Can they start over? Whether the new-found interest in governing will transform and even tame Hamas has not yet been decided. Is Israel a democracy? Gershom Gorenberg wonders. More and more and more and more on Shlomo Sand's The Invention of the Jewish People. From TNR, Moshe Halbertal on The Goldstone Illusion: What the U.N. report gets wrong about Gaza — and war (and Israel without illusions: David Shulman on what Goldstone got right). An interview with Richard Goldstone: “I’m certainly a friend of Israel — I don’t mind being called a Zionist”. A review of Allis and Ronald Radosh's A Safe Haven: Harry S. Truman and the Founding of Israel. All rise for the Palestinian anthem: A parody of a nationalistic Palestinian song ridicules the intractable dispute between Hamas and Fatah leaders. Jonathan Campbell reviews Right to Exist: A Moral Defense of Israel's Wars by Yaacov Lozowick. An interview with former Mossad chief Efraim Halevy on the peace with the Palestinians and why Israel is indestructible. An interview with Michael Goldfarb on books on Israel. With their rampaging special sales, the bookstore chains are destroying Israeli culture. Tony Judt on why Israel must unpick its ethnic myth. Benny Morris reviews Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations by Avi Shlaim. An interview with Dan Senor, author of Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (and more and more).
