John O. (buzzby) -
Two things I liked to start: He has a map of Isreal at the front, and the map actually shows the places he is talking about in the book!
Anyway, he writes like a journalist, in that he writes 27 chapters being 15 to 35 page vignettes chronologicallly from 1897 forward, not unlike James Michener's Source (except that Michener covered 12,000 years, Shavit covers 110, Michener is fiction, this is non-fiction).
He spends a lot of time on the dichotomy of the Arab views and Israeli views of the conflict, I got a little tired of the liberal habit of not really resolving any of it (like that really can be done, in this case).
Anyway, he writes like a journalist, in that he writes 27 chapters being 15 to 35 page vignettes chronologicallly from 1897 forward, not unlike James Michener's Source (except that Michener covered 12,000 years, Shavit covers 110, Michener is fiction, this is non-fiction).
He spends a lot of time on the dichotomy of the Arab views and Israeli views of the conflict, I got a little tired of the liberal habit of not really resolving any of it (like that really can be done, in this case).
