Title: Thomas L. Friedman he is NOT!
Product review: I just finished this book. While reading it I found it a little disjunctive, a little disturbing. But it wasn't until I slept that I woke knowing what is wrong with it. Unlike Thomas Friedman, Mr. Horovitz doesn't mingle, as he admits, with Palestinians nor does he go into the West Bank or East Jerusalem, except occasionally as a journalist. That would be okay; what is not okay is the writer's quite unbelievable arrogance. He believes he might have saved Prime Minister Rabin from his horrid fate--if only he had been at the peace rally in Tel Aviv the night he was shot! He believes, or strongly suggests, that his wife single-handedly threw the last Israeli election--to Mr. Barak. Arrogance isn't interesting and neither is most of this book. An attitude lies beneath it that is faux macho and lacking artistic value.
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