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Israel on the Brink

By: Ilan Pappé
Narrated by: James Cavendish
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Israel can’t go on like this.

7 October and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza laid bare the cracks in its foundations. It was unveiled as a country unable to protect its citizens, divided between messianic theocrats and selective liberals, resented by its neighbours and losing the support of Jews worldwide. While its leaders justify bombing campaigns exceeding the worst atrocities of World War 2 and a spiralling humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, Israel is becoming a pariah state. Its worst enemy is not Hamas, but itself.

Ilan Pappe paves a path out of the Jewish state, rooted in restorative justice and decolonisation, including the return of refugees, the end of illegal settlements, and building bridges with the Arab world. The future can be one of reconciliation, not endless war.

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This book is a masterpiece of communication and as I see it, as important a narrative that Professor Ilan Pappé has provided on historical Palestine to date.

If you are reading this review, I suspect you will already know of Ilan Pappé's credentials, so it will come as no surprise that this 2026 book provides a poignant and extended history of the people and events in this region, based on a lifetime's research and lived experience. With this context, the author then provides the listener with an incredibly thought provoking and hopeful, considered yet candid set of possibilities and frameworks, that could help lead to the 'Better Future' that is in the subtitle of the book.

I am sure James Cavendish's excellent narration throughout, allows Ilan Pappé's words to flow how they were intended, with a perfect tone for the emotional rollercoaster this audio book traverses.

A very important book which I will certainly listen to, and read again.

Grounded in history, a hopeful future reimagined

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In some ways it feels bleak to read a somewhat hopeful and certainly constructive book, published so recently (6 months ago) that already feels anachronistic: a lot of the suggested solutions feel further away than ever in the face of Israel’s current forms of aggressions and increased expansions.

However I have a responsibility as an educator, and we all have responsibility as humans, to not give up hope and fight for those oppressed by Israel - be it their bombed neighbours, the countries whose governments are lobbied for financial and military complicit subordination, or the violently oppressed Palestinians themselves - at least for as long as any survive, even if in depleted numbers and horrifyingly worsened conditions.

At least with this book we are offered imaginings of solutions rather than understandable but inactive despair. I’d prefer reality to imaginings but I prefer imaginings to hopeless defeat.

This book is written by an Israeli born academic - an important reminder than even when polls suggest the vast majority of the population support their government and military’s war crimes, not everyone does. Another form of hope.

Bleak but at least striving for solutions

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