A Blood-dimmed Tide: Dispatches from the Middle East by Amos Elon
Amos Elon has been reflecting and reporting on the state of Israel since 1967. His essays and reportage collected in this volume provide insights into Israeli paradoxes, passions and predicaments in recent times. The volume includes essays on Moshe Dayan's romantic and unsettling influence on the national imagination, the moves towards peace with the Palestinians, and Israel's precarious neutrality in the Gulf war.