Goodman’s book was a bestseller in Israel of 2017, a more of a calm era where something could be written on the Palestinian conflict without a need to rewrite it from scratch in a month’s time.

Goodman attempted a daring try to publish a very short analytical report which under normal circumstances should have ended up on a limited number of desks, but he packed it into something for a wider audience instead.

My favorite part of the book is a super brief description of evolution of the left and the right ideologies in Israel, something I couldn’t get in basic history books focused more on specific events.

Goodman’s style is extremely repetitive with every statement opening and closing each chapter, and reinstated at the beginning of the next one. Weirdly, it is not annoying and helps you follow his line even with intermittent reading.

Although I don’t necessarily agree with all of his conclusions, I would say that’s the top book I would recommend for someone trying to understand the Israeli part of the West Bank issue.

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