The Army's Role in Israeli Politics

Has Israel’s military elite distorted Israeli politics—and rendered peace impossible—through its aggressive view of the world?

Steven Erlanger
Issue: Nov-Dec 2012

Patrick Tyler, Fortress Israel: The Inside Story of the Military Elite Who Run the Country—and Why They Can’t Make Peace (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012), 576 pp., $35.00.

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