Israel Alone
Published on 24. October 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
979-8-88845-783-2 (ISBN)
Description
Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Levy analyzes global responses to October 7, the new virulent waves of the oldest hatred in the world: anti-Semitism, why Israel is waging this existential war against barbarism alone, and what's at stake for Israel and the world.
Bernard-Henri Levy's Israel Alone is a passionate and outraged cri-de-coeur, about the loneliness of Israel and the tragedy of October 7, starting with Levy's eyewitness account the day after the pogroms.
On October 8, 2023, Bernard-Henri Levy flew to Israel to bear witness to the unprecedented invasion and massacre committed by Hamas. Israel Alone begins here and weaves in Levy's fifty years on the ground in Israel, from his first trip in 1967, his experiences writing on all the conflicts since, and his participation in various peace plans and contacts with all the Israeli leaders from Menachem Begin to Shimon Peres and from Ariel Sharon to Yitzak Shamir and Yitzak Rabin.
From his unique philosophical and humanist perspective, Levy analyzes the ultimate evil unleashed on Israel on October 7 and delves into how the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia, radical Islamist groups, Turkey, and China have played roles and profited from this tragedy.
The book addresses how October 7, though historic in scope, became, within weeks, a "detail" in the global consciousness amid a worldwide eruption of anti-Semitism, cloaked in anti-Zionism.
Levy deconstructs the arguments of those calling for a "cease-fire now" without the release of all hostages and of those who demand that October 7 be seen within a greater "context."
Levy's meditation on the soul of Zionism and Israel shows why this war is existential, not only for Israel but for the global West.
And yet, despite the urgency and critical nature of this war, Israel takes it on alone.
Levy analyzes, today, why this is so and why Israel's solitude is greater than ever.
Bernard-Henri Levy's Israel Alone is a passionate and outraged cri-de-coeur, about the loneliness of Israel and the tragedy of October 7, starting with Levy's eyewitness account the day after the pogroms.
On October 8, 2023, Bernard-Henri Levy flew to Israel to bear witness to the unprecedented invasion and massacre committed by Hamas. Israel Alone begins here and weaves in Levy's fifty years on the ground in Israel, from his first trip in 1967, his experiences writing on all the conflicts since, and his participation in various peace plans and contacts with all the Israeli leaders from Menachem Begin to Shimon Peres and from Ariel Sharon to Yitzak Shamir and Yitzak Rabin.
From his unique philosophical and humanist perspective, Levy analyzes the ultimate evil unleashed on Israel on October 7 and delves into how the Islamic Republic of Iran, Russia, radical Islamist groups, Turkey, and China have played roles and profited from this tragedy.
The book addresses how October 7, though historic in scope, became, within weeks, a "detail" in the global consciousness amid a worldwide eruption of anti-Semitism, cloaked in anti-Zionism.
Levy deconstructs the arguments of those calling for a "cease-fire now" without the release of all hostages and of those who demand that October 7 be seen within a greater "context."
Levy's meditation on the soul of Zionism and Israel shows why this war is existential, not only for Israel but for the global West.
And yet, despite the urgency and critical nature of this war, Israel takes it on alone.
Levy analyzes, today, why this is so and why Israel's solitude is greater than ever.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Post Hill Press
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
186 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88845-783-2 (9798888457832)
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Bernard-Henri Levy is a French philosopher, director of eight films, and author of forty-eight books. Levy is one of the West's foremost intellectuals, defending democracy and humanism against totalitarianism and fascism. His recent books include The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope (2021), The Virus in the Age of Madness (2020), The Empire and the Five Kings (2019), The Genius of Judaism (2017), American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville (2005), and Who Killed Daniel Pearl? (2003).
Levy has made films on the war in Bosnia; Libya; Iraqi Kurdistan besieged by ISIS; and Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Ukraine.
Levy's work as an intellectual, a writer, and a film-maker is intertwined with humanitarian activism. For fifty years, Levy has reported on the world's "forgotten wars" and devoted numerous books, films, and articles to these crises. Levy has participated in various peace plans and contacts with Israeli leaders from Menachem Begin to Shimon Peres, and from Ariel Sharon, Yitzak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.
Levy has made films on the war in Bosnia; Libya; Iraqi Kurdistan besieged by ISIS; and Afghanistan, Somalia, Bangladesh, Nigeria, and Ukraine.
Levy's work as an intellectual, a writer, and a film-maker is intertwined with humanitarian activism. For fifty years, Levy has reported on the world's "forgotten wars" and devoted numerous books, films, and articles to these crises. Levy has participated in various peace plans and contacts with Israeli leaders from Menachem Begin to Shimon Peres, and from Ariel Sharon, Yitzak Shamir and Yitzhak Rabin.