Gershom Gorenberg

Gershom Gorenberg (* in St. Louis, Missouri, USA) is a U.S. citizen and an Orthodox Jew. He is considered an expert on the Middle East conflict and the history of Israel. He is also a journalist and blogger.

Life

He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, and received his BA degree in 1967 in religious studies. In 1985, he received his MA in education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

He is a member of the Editorial Board of The American Prospect, one appearing on a monthly basis American politics magazine. He describes himself as left, skeptical Orthodox Jewish Zionist.

Political motivation

Following the public presentation of the established with funds from the Mulitmilliardärs George Soros organization J street in April 2008, the policy responses were split. Gershom Gorenberg campaigned for their position and influence as the organization Gore Mountain sat approaches to resolving the Middle East conflict in their program. These are approximately defined by peaceful and diplomatic settlement of the Arab - or palästinensch - Israeli conflict as well as a new direction of American policy in the Middle East: " diplomatic solutions before military ", " multilateral over bilateral approaches to conflict resolution " and "dialogue of confrontation ".

While Noah Pollak accepted in Commentary Magazine, the attempt of J street would fail and show that no "big battalions American Jewish pigeons in speechlessness languish ," Gorenberg expressed the hope J street "could not only change the political map in Washington, but also the actual map of the Middle East ".

Works

• His books are bestsellers in Israel, including The Accidental Empire.
• His biography of Yitzhak Rabin was awarded the National Jewish Book Award.
• His latest work Israel abolishes itself appeared on 16 August 2012. Campus verlag, Frankfurt am Main / New York City, ISBN 978-3-593-39724-5. The English title is The Unmaking of Israel