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Born in Europe’s shadow, haunted by the Holocaust, and inspired by the Enlightenment, Israel has changed. Where is this diverse and self-absorbed country heading today? How do its citizens see themselves, globally and historically? Israel Has Moved is a profound and sometimes unsettling account of a country that is no longer where we might think.
- Sales Rank: #1542352 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-02-28
- Released on: 2013-02-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
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Pinto's strength as a writer is her penetrating understanding of what lies beneath the surface of the clichés...Pinto describes a recognizable Israeli mindset which owes nothing to the discourse of post-colonial narratives but rather a unique viewpoint, developed out of centuries of statelessness...Pinto has written about the country rather than being drawn, as so many intellectuals are, to the seamline, the conflict. Knowing that the occupation is wrong, that Zionism was a category error, absolves them of the duty of giving Israel and Israelis any real thought. In China and India the opposite is the case; they're fascinated by how the place works, what exactly is the secret of its ability to live outside geography. Pinto is the writer to turn to, though her own head is as bashed against the wall of futility as everybody else's. (Linda Grant The Independent 2013-03-02)
[Pinto] presents impressions and interviews that reveal both Israeli truculence to go its own road as well as deep schisms within Israeli society. The author's vivid characterizations of Israeli society expose its deeply problematic nature: as 'autistic,' in that its brilliant young people and leaders operate within a self-contained obliviousness of others; as a 'realm of collective psychosis' in thinking, as ultranationalist religious Zionists do, that the Temple in Jerusalem could ever be rebuilt, since it would obliterate the Dome of the Rock, a holy site for Muslims; as a postmodern Utopia in its scientific and genetic advances; as a 'very large and ultrasophisticated aquarium' containing exotic fishes, all 'turning rapidly away to avoid the others, and all of this in utter silence.' From the choosing of which road to take into Jerusalem (through heroic landmarks or the less-traveled Route 443 leading to various Arab exits) to the country's spectacular embrace of high technology and Asian investment, which offer a glaring juxtaposition to the pre-modern lifestyles of the ultraorthodox, everywhere Israel is awash in contradictions. But does Israel really care who thinks so? Fewer and fewer sophisticated Israelis bother to envision a two-state solution, and Pinto fears that this solipsism is engendering a dangerous "self-satisfaction bordering on hubris"--and it can't last...A solid work of intellectual criticism. (Kirkus Reviews 2012-12-01)
In every chapter vivid colors depict in exquisite detail some delimited aspect of life. Diana Pinto has an eye for the telling detail that helps us feel the complexity, the nuance, the texture, and the flow of social, economic, cultural, and political life in Israel today. (Tony Smith, Tufts University)
Diana Pinto's book is brilliant. She draws a portrait of Israel as a living entity, warts and all, caught between the euphoric power of its creativity, and the weaknesses of its historical contradictions and political impasses. Studded with multi-layered illuminating anecdotes and metaphors, the book could easily pass as a fascinating travel journal. But rigorous intellectual categories lurk behind the highly readable style. (Saul Friedlander, University of California, Los Angeles)
A terrific book, so well written that it is hard to put down while offering deep and analytical insights that must be taken seriously by anyone concerned with contemporary Israel. (Susan Neiman, Director, Einstein Forum)
Brilliant and beautifully written. Even those who disagree with Pinto's analysis cannot deny its force and her deep love and concern for Israel. An equally anguished and powerful rebuttal can be expected from Jerusalem. (Shlomo Avineri, author of The Making of Modern Zionism)
This book takes Israel's built environment as a departure point to offer broader reflections on shifts in the nation's psyche, sometimes to brilliant and startling effect. Diana Pinto delineates the physical landscape of present-day Israel--its highways, restaurants and shopping malls--using it to describe the country as it is, not as the rest of the world would like it to be...Pinto's acute--and, in my view, apt--diagnosis of Israel's defining ailment is that it is 'autistic': trapped inside its own increasingly comfortable, security-defended bubble, unable to connect with--much less identify with--its neighbors, starting with the Palestinians...Overall, the effect is of enjoying an engaging and trenchant dinner party conversation with an intelligent traveller brimming with impressions from a trip. (John Reed Financial Times 2013-03-24)
It’s rare for any book nowadays to cast totally new light on the Israel-Palestine conflict, but Diana Pinto’s Israel Has Moved does just that. She argues that the political, military and financial elite of Israel are turning away from Europe and even from America, which they regard as mired in economic difficulties and riven by ideological contradictions, and are looking to align themselves with those regimes in the Far East, China in particular, which have, like them, scant regard for human rights and a fierce determination to succeed economically and politically. Written out of a profound reverence for Enlightenment values, this desperately sad yet elegant and witty book asks us to contemplate the possibility that the Enlightenment, far from gradually conquering the globe, may, after 250 years, be slowly dying before our eyes. (Gabriel Josipovici Times Literary Supplement 2013-11-29)
About the Author
Diana Pinto is an intellectual historian and policy analyst living in Paris.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Exquisite narration of the present Israeli gestalt, informed by the past 20 years and 20 centuries.
By J. D. Frost
Beautifully written and accurate to the finest nuance. I've been traveling to Israel annually for more than thirty years - this author has encapsulated and elucidated modern Israeli culture(s) world views and gestalt in a page turner that is also an intellectual travel diary. Comparable to Amos Oz's Here and There in the Land of Israel, for the new century.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
provocative but no data or context
By Paul Burstein
Pinto's book begins provocatively. She claims that "Israel has abandoned its Arab neighborhood," and, what's more, is "in the process of forfeiting its more than 2,000-year-old anchoring...within the grand Western symbiosis of Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem....Israel today thinks of itself as living in its own cyberspace...inside its own utopia," while "its postmodern future is being built on scientific innovation, and yet the country seems to be rooting itself in an increasingly ancient, even archaic, past whose tenets are ever more religiously and ethnically exclusive" (p. 1). And it concludes provocatively as well. Israelis no longer think much about a two-state solution because it seems unattainable. Instead, "Today's Israel, dashing toward the future with an incredible creative energy but also with a self-satisfaction bordering on hubris will not be able to endure in its current setting" (p. 190).
Though well-written and full of interesting observations, Israel Has Moved basically repeats two conventional tropes. First is the idea of the "bubble," claiming that Israelis, especially the well-off in and around Tel Aviv, are living in a fantasy world, oblivious to the harm they are causing others and the danger they are in. Second is the claim that Israelis don't think very much about the two-state solution, a view encapsulated in the headline of Ethan Bronner's New York Times article of May 25, "What Mideast Crisis? Israelis Have Moved On."
I'll mention three problems with the book. First, Pinto very confidentally makes bold claims about Israel (as in "Israel has abandoned its Arab neighborhood") and Israelis without any evidence to back them up, beyond her own impressions, gathered who knows how? Of course some of the claims are figurative (Pinto knows Israel hasn't moved physically) but they still represent very bold claims about Israelis' state of mind based on--what? Second, though it is surely true that many Israelis ignore the danger they're in on a day-to-day basis, it's difficult to claim that this is a general phenomenon, given the constant coverage of Israel's problems, domestic and foreign, in the media, literature, the arts, publications by think tanks, etc., etc. Third, Pinto is guilty of what she accuses Israelis of--ignoring the outside world. If one had visited the U.S. during much of the Cold War, when there was a real threat of nuclear annhilation, when the Civil Rights movement was at its peak, when the U.S. was staying in Vietnam despite protests against its being there, what would one have found most people--not all, by any means--thinking about on a daily basis? Earning a living, family relationships, shopping, and so on. That didn't mean people didn't care about the threat of nuclear war, or civil rights, or Vietnam--it just meant that people don't spend their time worrying about big issues they can't do anything about. It would have helped a lot had Pinto treated Israelis like regular people, responding to big national and international conflicts and dangers much the way others do. Or if Israelis are uniquely oblivious to their circumstances, it would have been helpful to provide some evidence that this is so. Pinto has provided some thought-provoking rhetoric, but no one should mistake this for a book from which one can learn much about Israel.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
New Approach
By elliott ashkenazi
Unusual approach to a subject that has received much attention. Her conclusions are difficult to ignore. The drift of Israel away from founding principles is inescapable, but there is no one to talk to on other side of the table.
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