Bøger af Michael B. Oren

In one of the most valuable recent works on this subject, Oren, a scholar and Senior Fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem, details events from the Six Day War known in the Arab world as Al-Naksah or simply the June war. "This is not only the best book so far written on the Six-Day War, it is likely to remain the best."--"The Washington Post Book World."

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER *;Includes a new afterword about the Iran nuclear agreement,the 2016 presidential race, and the future of the U.S.-Israel allianceMichael B. Oren's memoir of his time as Israel's ambassador to the United Statesa period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle Eastprovides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region. Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren's tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. Forged in the Truman administration, America's alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. On more than one occasion, the friendship's very fabric seemed close to unraveling. Ally is the story of that enduring allianceand of its divideswritten from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Orena man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV's Sunday morning political shows. In the pages of this fast-paced book, Oren interweaves the story of his personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world's most contested strip of land. A quintessentially American story of a young man who refused to relinquish a dreamirrespective of the obstaclesand an inherently Israeli story about assuming onerous responsibilities, Ally is at once a record, a chronicle, and a confession. And it is a story about loveabout someone fortunate enough to love two countries and to represent one to the other. But, above all, this memoir is a testament to an alliance that was and will remain vital for Americans, Israelis, and the world.

"Will shape our thinking about America and the Middle East for years."-Christopher Dickey, Newsweek

This book represents the first scholarly examination of the origins of the 1956 Sinai campaign between Egypt and Israel.

En spændende og veldokumenteret gennemgang af en krig, der forbløffede verden og trak nye grænser både i Mellemøsten og den kolde krig mellem øst og vest. Denne bog er den mest omfattende beretning om denne dramatiske og centrale begivenhed. Aldrig har en så kort, uforudset og i det store og hele uønsket konflikt i den grad påvirket verden. Yom Kippur Krigen, krigen i Libanon, Camp David aftalerne, striden om Jerusalem og de jødiske bosættelser på Vestbredden, intifada'en og den tiltagende palæstinænsiske terror - alt sammen helt eller delvis afstedkommet af disse seks dages intense arabisk-israelske kampe i sommeren 1967. I bogen afsløres mange tophemmelige dokumenter, og vi kommer helt ind i magtens korridorer. Men først og fremmest oplever vi miraklerne på slagmarken.