"Few Americans can appreciate the intensity, substance, and complexity of the struggles in Israel without reading this book."--Ian Lustick, president of the Association for Israel Studies "Honest to a fault, possessed of no illusions, with no ax to grind, Benvenisti has insisted that Israeli and Palestinian should acknowledge the facts of their world. Controversial, a hawk to the Israeli doves, a dove to the hawks, he has gone his own way."--Fouad Ajami, author of "The Arab Predicament"