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Why Israel's very best weakness is its very best strength, and what its followers and foes can learn from its success Israel's critics in the Western insist that no country founded about the same religion or culture can stay democratic and successful - but they're wrong. In The Guarantee of Israel, Daniel Gordis points out that Israel has defied that typical wisdom. It includes provided its people infinitely higher liberty and prosperity than anyone expected, faring far better than any young nation. Israel's "magic" is a distinctive mixture of democracy and custom, of unabashed particularism combined to intellectual and cultural openness. Given Israel's success, it would make sense for most other countries, from Rwanda to Afghanistan and even Iran, to check out how they've done it. Actually, rather than seeking to eliminate Israel, the Palestinians would provide their own best interests by wanting to replicate it.
- Needs many of the most compelling quarrels against Israel and becomes them completely on their heads, undoing liberals with a far more liberal debate and the spiritual with a far more devout debate
- Sets forth an idea that is really as convincing as it is stunning - that Iran's clerics and the Taliban should desire to be more like Israel
- Written by Daniel Gordis, the author of the National Jewish Book Honor winner, Cutting down Israel
- Daniel Gordis has been called "one of Israel's most thoughtful observers" (Alan Dershowitz) and "a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving" (Cynthia Ozick)
