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Overview
Michael B. Oren’s memoir of his time as Israel’s ambassador to the United States—a period of transformative change for America and a time of violent upheaval throughout the Middle East—provides a frank, fascinating look inside the special relationship between America and its closest ally in the region.
Michael Oren served as the Israeli ambassador to the United States from 2009 to 2013. An American by birth and a historian by training, Oren arrived at his diplomatic post just as Benjamin Netanyahu, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton assumed office. During Oren’s tenure in office, Israel and America grappled with the Palestinian peace process, the Arab Spring, and existential threats to Israel posed by international terrorism and the Iranian nuclear program. Forged in the Truman administration, America’s alliance with Israel was subjected to enormous strains, and its future was questioned by commentators in both countries. On more than one occasion, the friendship’s very fabric seemed close to unraveling.
Ally is the story of that enduring alliance—and of its divides—written from the perspective of a man who treasures his American identity while proudly serving the Jewish State he has come to call home. No one could have been better suited to strengthen bridges between the United States and Israel than Michael Oren—a man equally at home jumping out of a plane as an Israeli paratrooper and discussing Middle East history on TV’s Sunday morning political shows. In the pages of this fast-paced book, Oren interweaves the story of his personal journey with behind-the-scenes accounts of fateful meetings between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu, high-stakes summits with the Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and diplomatic crises that intensified the controversy surrounding the world’s most contested strip of land.
A quintessentially American story of a young man who refused to relinquish a dream—irrespective of the obstacles—and an inherently Israeli story about assuming onerous responsibilities, Ally is at once a record, a chronicle, and a confession. And it is a story about love—about someone fortunate enough to love two countries and to represent one to the other. But, above all, this memoir is a testament to an alliance that was and will remain vital for Americans, Israelis, and the world.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780812986426 |
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Publisher: | Random House Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 09/20/2016 |
Pages: | 480 |
Sales rank: | 550,477 |
Product dimensions: | 5.22(w) x 7.94(h) x 1.28(d) |
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Table of Contents
Foreword: Washington, May 1970 xi
Map of Israel xvi
Map of Judea and Samaria/West Bank xvii
The Perforated Passport 3
Growing Up American 5
Rising to Israel 8
3335335 13
A Free People in Our Land 16
Peace for the Galilee? 19
Wars of Words 23
Dark Decade 28
Six Days Re-created 31
Firing Line 34
An American Legacy 39
Hope, Change, War 43
Unclenched Fist 47
Hat in the Ring 54
Boot Camp 59
Metamorphic Month 64
Unbreakable, Unshakable 71
New Realities 76
Map of Jerusalem 78
Daylight on Pennsylvania Avenue 81
At Home and on the Water 89
Obama 101 92
Blood Libel 99
Autumn of Malcontents 103
Chrysalis 119
Tremors 132
Blood and Treasure 135
Fish and Fighters 146
Year of Affliction 151
In Honor and in Shame 152
09185-016 162
Partners for Peace? 168
DNA 177
The Twenty Percent Solution 182
Conflagration 191
Wintry Spring 195
Through the Dust Darkly 206
Six Days in May 214
In Sunshine or in Shadow 227
Roller Coaster 232
Job 1:16 238
Hatchet Jobs 246
We Are One? 254
Zones of immunity 271
Ducks and Bombs 277
How You Doin', Shimon? 288
Polls Apart 293
Sandstorms 300
Last Lap 308
Ally, Goodbye 313
You Are Not Alone 316
Kerry Ex Machina 327
Surprises 337
The Things I Carried Home 346
A Night at Kibbutz Na'an 356
Acknowledgments 379
Ally: An Aftermath 383
Prominent Figures in Ally 395
Index 405