From Beirut to Jerusalem
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
Narrateur(s):
Robert Petkoff
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Narrateur(s):
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Robert Petkoff
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Auteur(s):
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Thomas L. Friedman
À propos de cet audio
The program features a new introduction written and read by the author.
"If you're only going to read one book on the Middle East, this is it."—Seymour M. Hersh
One of the most thought-provoking books ever written about the Middle East, From Beirut to Jerusalem remains vital to our understanding of this complex and volatile region of the world. Three-time Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman drew upon his 10 years of experience reporting from Lebanon and Israel to write this now-classic work of journalism.
Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come.
A Macmillan Audio production.
©2010 Thomas L. Friedman (P)2024 Macmillan AudioCe que les critiques en disent
“The most intelligent and comprehensive account one is likely to read.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Fascinating...Friedman has mastered his subject.”—Time
“Perhaps no other book written for a popular audience has so successfully explained the unexplainable….This book is an annotated road map to the past, and a brilliant crystal ball for the future.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Thomas Friedman is an accomplished journalist and obviously has worked hard to provide what he thinks is the truth about what was going on around him from his posts in Beirut and Jerusalem. He shares what he did, who he talked to, what he learned and what he thinks. You could have read that in the newspapers, in particular the New York Times that he wrote for, An exception might be some of the personal anecdotes, which frankly, I was not interested in, but find common to books about current subjects written by journalists. In a book I wish for more depth than in the newspapers and more context. Yes, there is some history and social context in this book but it is light in depth and breadth compared to the volume of stories and anecdotes that make up this book.
This book is useful and Friedman goes to great extent in delving into the way in which some of the actors in the Middle East say they think. He does a particularly good job of this with the Jews of Israel and the United States. But he is light on the history of the bones on which the grudges of the peoples of the Middle East were formed and that persist in animating the actors of the Middle East or at least Palestine and Lebanon.
There are facts about the Middle East and there are myths. Identifying which are which, or at least what are the arguments for them being fact or myth is what I consider the most useful thing for understanding the Middle East. Palestine for example is the subject of argument where people don't agree on the facts let alone the analysis of them. Jews argue that Palestine was always theirs. Palestinian Arabs argue Palestine was theirs. The Ottoman Empire thought Palestine was its until they lost World War i and Britain took it away from them on agreement with its allies. Britain thought it was theirs and they could do with it as they thought best and proceeded to do just that until they realized that they weren't sure what it is they wanted to do and that what they were doing was antagonizing everyone in Palestine and not worth the cost to themselves. So the British punted Palestine to the United Nations which recommended a partition of Palestine between Jews and Arabs that was unsatisfactory to either of them and the UN was unable and unwilling to force their compromise on them. The Arabs were the majority in Palestine, even in the part of Palestine that the UN recommended giving the Jews. Jews, logically, didn't want a new state in which they would be a minority as they had been for centuries in various countries around the world. Jews needed to displace non-Jews from what would be Israel since no one was going to do that for them, not the UN or the British which had invited them to have a homeland in Palestine. And the Jews did just that. This is what Ilan Pappe described in his book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine whose title describes its contents. It is on this foundation that the conflict has cooked at various temperatures over time. Friedman doesn't lay that out, nor go into detail about it, although he does allude to a lot of it in passing.
There are some books I've read where I regret having spent the time to read them. This is not one of them. However with what he had learned in detail I would have hoped Friedman would have woven it into the history and context to make it a profound book that really would be the single best thing to read to understand the Middle East.
The performance of the reader was too emphatic for my taste. He earnestly punches up almost every line although as written the lines are already punched up by the author. Reading most of it deadpan would have done the trick very well and then punching up the occasional line would have had more effect.
A Journalist Learns about the Middle East
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