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  title info:
    title: My country, my life
    sub title: fighting for Israel, searching for peace
  name:
    name part: Barak, Ehud
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xx, 472 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates (some color) : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  abstract: One of Israel's most influential and enduring figures, Ehud Barak was born on a kibbutz six years before the establishment of the state. During a long career in the military, he led the country's elite special-forces unit and rose to become armed forces chief of staff before going on to serve as Israel's defense minister and prime minister. This is his story, in his own words, for the very first time. In this book, Ehud Barak draws on his experience as a military and political leader, son and father to offer an up-close-and-personal look at both the history and future of Israel. In writing this groundbreaking memoir, he found himself 'retracing not just my own life but Israel's, step by step, since our shared infancy.' From the country's creation and founding vision to its seven wars, two intifadas and everyday conflicts between its Jewish and Palestinian populations, Barak examines the reasons his beloved ancestral homeland is at a crossroads today. Israel may be facing a crisis 'more profound than any in my lifetime,' he writes. Still, he feels 'fundamentally optimistic about our ability to come out stronger and more vigorous on the other side.' Offering candid assessments of his fellow politicians, the American administrations with which he worked and his own trials and tribulations while in office, Barak argues that the country's current drift toward a 'one-state' solution to the conflict with the Palestinians, with permanent control over the West Bank, will inevitably end in tragedy, eroding its democratic principles and the core values of Zionism and sowing the seeds of future violence. He argues that Israel's own security and national interests dictate that, however long it might take, a two-state solution is the only conceivable destination. By rediscovering the twin pillars on which Israel was built, military might and moral purpose, it can thrive, he believes, and only then can peace and stability in the Middle East be achieved.
  table of contents: Preface: Night flight -- Kibbutz roots -- Picking locks, stealing guns, growing up -- Accidental commando -- Turn off the radio -- Out of the fog -- Six days in June -- Back in uniform -- Uzis and eye shadow -- Wake-up call -- Entebbe -- The Earth moves -- Israel's Vietnam -- Chain of command -- Intifada -- Chief of staff -- Prospects and perils of peace -- Hate versus hope -- Labor pains -- One Israel -- Struggle for peace -- Beyond Oslo -- Camp David -- Arafat's answer -- Voice for the defense -- Final act -- Epilogue: Crossroads.
  note: Ehud Barak.
  note: Illustrations on endpapers.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    geographic code: a-is---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Barak, Ehud
      name part: 1942-
  subject:
    topic: Prime ministers
    geographic: Israel
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Generals
    geographic: Israel
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Politicians
    geographic: Israel
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    geographic: Israel
    topic: Politics and government
    temporal: 1993-
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
  classification: DS126.6.B25 B37 2018
  classification: 956.9405/4092 B
  identifier: 9781250079367
  identifier: 1250079365
  identifier: 9781466892088
  identifier: 1466892080
  identifier: 2017060164
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 171218
    record change date: 20190422105628.0
    record identifier: in00004056504