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A Promise Fulfilled: Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, David Ben-Gurion, and the Creation of the State of Israel
Here are the stories of three very different men -- a journalist, a scientist, and a labor leader -- who shared the same seemingly impossible dream. They were determined to create a Jewish state in the land God promised to Abraham and his descendants -- land the Jews had been exiled from nearly two thousand years ago. They faced towering obstacles and dramatic setbacks. Yet they prevailed. How?
Spanning nearly ninety years and many significant world events, this concise history tells the tale of the creation of the state of Israel through the lives of three men. Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion at times disagreed -- even vehemently -- but each needed the other two in order to accomplish a common goal. A Promise Fulfilled shows how events built on one another -- how the way one crisis was handled influenced the way the next played out. It is essential reading, not just for understanding how the nation of Israel came to be, but for insight into the controversy and crises that surround this country even today.
Spanning nearly ninety years and many significant world events, this concise history tells the tale of the creation of the state of Israel through the lives of three men. Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmann, and David Ben-Gurion at times disagreed -- even vehemently -- but each needed the other two in order to accomplish a common goal. A Promise Fulfilled shows how events built on one another -- how the way one crisis was handled influenced the way the next played out. It is essential reading, not just for understanding how the nation of Israel came to be, but for insight into the controversy and crises that surround this country even today.
- GenresIsrael
144 pages, Hardcover
First published April 1, 2005
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December 12, 2013
This was a book about the founding of the state of Israel and the major leaders that were part of this
Zionist movement. I picked it up because I am excited about Israel and its history after living there for four months. I realized how very little I knew about this place. This book was really fun because it solidified some of the things while I lived over there. I was disappointed with how one sided and naive this book was in the way it dealt with the Israel/Arab conflict though. It didn't seem to notice how it turned the leaders it was talking about into heroic figures (something mentioned and criticized a bit in the first chapter)instead of flawed people with particular motives. It also criminalized a lot of Arab behavior as if as a whole the people were doing this violence but talked about the violence done by Jews as just extremists on the edge of their society. It also doesn't ask the important question on if the Zionist leaders were justified in coming into Israel. These men had never been there and didn't visit until the movement was well on its way. Why did they think they had a right to this land and what were some of the problems with these assumptions? This book forgot to address that major question. Whoops.
Zionist movement. I picked it up because I am excited about Israel and its history after living there for four months. I realized how very little I knew about this place. This book was really fun because it solidified some of the things while I lived over there. I was disappointed with how one sided and naive this book was in the way it dealt with the Israel/Arab conflict though. It didn't seem to notice how it turned the leaders it was talking about into heroic figures (something mentioned and criticized a bit in the first chapter)instead of flawed people with particular motives. It also criminalized a lot of Arab behavior as if as a whole the people were doing this violence but talked about the violence done by Jews as just extremists on the edge of their society. It also doesn't ask the important question on if the Zionist leaders were justified in coming into Israel. These men had never been there and didn't visit until the movement was well on its way. Why did they think they had a right to this land and what were some of the problems with these assumptions? This book forgot to address that major question. Whoops.
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