Our Separate Ways: The Fight for the Future of the US-Israel Alliance

Dana H. Allin · Steven N. Simon

Jun 2016 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by David Colacci

About this audiobook

The future of the relationship between Israel and America is deeply uncertain: the current political leadership of both countries is hostile to the other, there is no longer a sense of shared strategic focus, and demographic changes are forcing the countries further apart with every passing year. Undermining the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is the fact that it was never clearly defined. The ambiguity has been politically helpful, but now threatens the future: there is no treaty, no agreed set of obligations, no mutual dependence. So when things get sour, there is nothing to fall back upon except historical memory. Dana Allin and Steven Simon are among the shrewdest analysts of and practitioners inside the world of U.S.-Israeli diplomacy. They have written an urgent, revelatory book showing the emerging fault lines between two previously staunch allies and the tremendous perils of a schism. And, they offer ways in which even at this late, disgruntled, embittered stage, the two sides might yet find a way toward a common future.

About the author

Dana H. Allin is a senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy and transatlantic affairs at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. His published work includes Cold War Illusions, NATO's Balkan Interventions, Repairing the Damage, and Weary Policeman.

Steven N. Simon is a diplomat and policymaker who previously served as a senior director for Middle Eastern and North African affairs at the White House. He has coauthored several books, including The Age of Sacred Terror, which won the 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award for best book on international relations.

David Colacci has been an actor and a director for over thirty years, and has worked as a narrator for over fifteen years. He has won AudioFile Earphones Awards, earned Audie nominations, and been included in Best of the Year lists by such publications as Publishers Weekly, AudioFile magazine, and Library Journal.