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Title: Our Separate Ways

Subtitle: The Fight for the Future of the US-Israel Alliance

Author: Dana H. Allin, Steven N. Simon

Narrator: David Colacci

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-14-16

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: History, American

Publisher's Summary:

The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: The current political leadership of each country is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year.

Undermining the relationship between Israel and the US is the fact that it was never clearly defined. The ambiguity has been politically helpful but now threatens the future: There is no treaty, no agreed set of obligations, no mutual dependence. So when things get sour, there is nothing to fall back upon except historical memory.

Dana Allin and Steven Simon are among the shrewdest analysts of and practitioners inside the world of US-Israeli diplomacy. They have written an urgent, revelatory book showing the emerging fault lines between two previously staunch allies and the tremendous perils of a schism. And they offer ways in which even at this late, disgruntled, embittered stage, the two sides might yet find a way toward a common future.

Members Reviews:

The United States and Israel: How the relationship is changing

OUR SEPARATE WAYS is organized into three sections. Its middle and longest section, âThe Crisisâ, reviews the difficult relationship between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government. Primarily, this discusses the administrationâs efforts to stop the gradual but relentless expansion of the settlements, myriad negotiating shenanigans that prevent progress towards a two-state solution, and the effects of the Arab Spring on the peace process.

Meanwhile, the first section of OSW, âThe Historyâ, is highlighted by its first chapter, which is entitled âIsrael in the Liberal Imaginationâ. And the final section, âThe Futureâ, has two strong chapters: âThe Growing Divideâ and âThe Struggle to Save an Allianceâ.

Eight excerpts from this book that summarize its troubling arguments are:

o âThe U.S.-Israel alliance is not simply under strain; it is at risk of being fundamentally transformed by long-term trends in both countries that will be impossible to stop and difficult to manage. Powerful demographic and cultural currents in Israel and the United States are driving the two countries apart.â

o âOn the American side, the commitment of a postwar generation to the ideals of Zionism is fading as that generation moves toward old age. [Further], four generations of intermarriage [in America] have weakenedâ Jewish identityâ as a cohesive community dedicated to Israelâs security and deeply entangled in its fate.â

o âThis will leave behind a tougher core of Jews who are often orthodox in their religious practice and mainly conservative in their political preferencesâ this will place them outside the political mainstream.â

o âInverse changes are underway in Israel. Today, half of all Israeli preschool children are either ultra-Orthodox or Arab. These are the two fastest growing communities in Israel, and they are also poorly educated.â

o ââ there are political moves to further define the country by its religion.