The story isn’t the Gaza war, and isn’t Israel; it’s the way those two stories have been told—and it’s not pretty.
Read more on Tablet: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/183033/israel-insider-guide?all=1
The Most Important Story on Earth? https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2014/08/the-most-important-story-on-earth/
About the author: Matti Friedman is the author of a memoir about the Israeli war in Lebanon, Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War (2016). His latest book is Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel (2019).