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Israel Undercover

This study will provide a brief overview of Steve Posner's Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. The study will then provide an analysis of the contents of the book.

In brief, Posner's book is designed to take a realistic look behind the scenes of the struggle in the Middle East between Israel and the Arabs.

It is not a hopeful work, but its hard-nosed realism provides a context in which compromise can be seen as the only alternative to complete destruction.

As Posner writes, an overview of the region itself yields a discouraging portrait if one takes what one finds at face value. As the author writes: "In the Middle East, there are those who believe that the land cannot support both victor and vanquished. The terrain is barren, the water scarce. It is as if an unspoken commandment echoes through the region: destroy your enemy or see him rise again to steal your well and cut your throat. The dust and the sand seem to have left little room for compromise. Victory in battle is not enough; one has to annihilate the enemy" (1).

The book is designed to both take us behind the scenes to the gritty reality of undercover work, and to warn us that the distrust and paranoia in the region are so rampant that unless something is done to ease the tension the most disastrous results for the world will inevitably come about.

The final argument of the book is that some form of compromise must be achieved between the combatants in the Middle East if there is to be any hope of preventing a complete horror or horrors in that region and perhaps spreading beyond that region. When we consider that this warning has been sounded again and again with respect to the middle East for decades now, we are tempted to shrug our shoulders and say , "what's new?" What's new in this case is the realism of Posner's arguments. Most negotiators in the Middle East view the situation in black and white term...

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