Israel’s Caesar
Naomi Shepherd, 26 November 1987
Sharon: An Israeli Caesar
by Uzi Benziman.
Robson, 276 pp., £12.95, September 1987,9780860514343 Show More
by Uzi Benziman.
Robson, 276 pp., £12.95, September 1987,
Sands of Sorrow: Israel’s Journey from Independence
by Milton Viorst.
Tauris, 328 pp., £16.50, September 1987,1 85043 064 0 Show More
by Milton Viorst.
Tauris, 328 pp., £16.50, September 1987,
“... leader and – in the eyes of liberal Israelis – perennial threat to Israel’s democracy. Uzi Benziman’s portrait is a commendable first attempt to evaluate the Sharon phenomenon. It is a journalist’s book – lively and readable, though sloppily translated and edited. The English edition, moreover, lacks the political glossary and the maps ... ”