Fortress Israel The Inside Stroy of the Military Elite Who Run the Country – and Why They Can’t Make Peace – Patrick Tyler Koop Online

“Once in the military system, Israelis never fully exit,” writes journalist Patrick Tyler. “They carry the military identity for life, not just through service in the reserves until age forty-nine … but through lifelong expectations of loyalty and secrecy.” The military is the country to a great extent, and peace will only come, Tyler argues, when Israel’s military elite adopt it as the national strategy. Bound by self-reliance and a stern resolve never to forget the Holocaust, Israel’s military elite has…