The End of Israel: Dispatches from a Path to Catastrophe

"How are things here, you ask. Things here are past insane."

In The End of Israel, acclaimed journalist Bradley Burston's dispatches for Haaretz newspaper trace the deep roots of the horrific Israel-Hamas war, exploring how the country could have chosen a different path, and possible options for its future.

The columns detail the decline and sudden fall of a failed nation, which - even before the war erupted - had begun to question whether this year's Independence Day would be its last. An Israel where the delusional and the fanatic were sovereign. A land which, the biblical book of Numbers warns us, eats its inhabitants alive.

Praise for The End of Israel:

"Heschel wrote that the prophet's word is a scream in the night.

While the world is at ease and asleep, the prophet feels the blast

from Heaven.

"It's not just that Bradley Burston saw what only few others could

see, it's that he found the courage to share it-urgently, honestly,

relentlessly.

"Burston has been a voice of moral clarity for decades. If only

more had listened... we might not be where we are today. And even

still, he wouldn't stand for us giving up hope-and so the struggle

goes on."

-Rabbi Sharon Brous

Author of the forthcoming The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to

Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

"Bradley Burston has warned for years that Israeli Jews would

never be truly safe until Palestinians are free. Now Jewish safety and

Palestinian freedom look further away than ever.

"Still, his essays don't counsel despair. They model wisdom,

decency, and hope."

-Peter Beinart

Author, The Crisis of Zionism

"Bradley Burston is 'the kind of person who loves Israel and hates

occupation, ' in his own words about another Israeli. On every issue

Burston touches, his passion for Israel, its beauty and potential and

tragedy, bursts out of these pages.

"His writing reflects his fierce and intimate devotion to Israel,

alongside unflinching observations about what's going wrong, and

how it could be better.

"Burston's collected works represent an essential warning cry, a

fine and complex tableau, and a roadmap to a better Israel."

-Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin

Political scientist and author of The Crooked Timber of

Democracy in Israel (2023).

Author: Bradley Burston
Publisher: Fryman Press
Published: 12/10/2023
Pages: 390
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.87d
ISBN: 9798989134700

About the Author
Burston, Bradley: - Bradley Burston, a longtime columnist for Israel's Haaretz newspaper, is a recipient of the Eliav-Sartawi Award for Mideast Journalism, presented at the United Nations in 2006.His columns have been quoted in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, The Nation, Politico, and Dissent. He has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, NPR, ABC Nightline and CNN.During the first Palestinian uprising of the late 1980s, he served as Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, and was the paper's Military Correspondent in the 1991 Gulf War. In the 1990s, he covered Middle East peace talks and Israeli politics for the Reuters news agency. In 2000, he became a founding editor of Haaretz newspaper's online English online edition, writing a column called "A Special Place in Hell," from which this collection was compiled.A native of Los Angeles, he moved to Israel after graduation from Berkeley. He was part of a group which established Kibbutz Gezer, between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. He served in the IDF as a combat medic, later studying medicine in Beer Sheva for two years before turning to journalism.