Beyond the Promised Land: Jews and Arabs on the Hard Road to a New Israel

The Sisyphean task known as "the Middle East peace process" having broken again in the mid-1990s, Washington Post reporter Glenn Frankel's account of a "new Israel" painfully emerging acquires a renewed and enhanced significance. Frankel, the Post's Jerusalem bureau chief from 1986 to 1989, is himself an American Jew, a background that makes him both uniquely equipped and inevitably embroiled in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Interviews with key players such as Natan Sharansky, Yitzhak Samir, and Israeli general Amram Mitzna enliven this important work.