Start your review of brother against brother violence and extremism in israeli politics from altalena to the rabin assassination write a review mar 21 2017 marcia van camp added it. Political violence roiled the jewish state from its beginning and ehud sprinzak gives context to todays turmoil in brother against brother violence and extremism in israeli politics from altalena to the rabin assassination sprinzak is a partisan who believes in labors two state solution to the palestinian question. Brother against brother takes the reader through the critical turning points of israeli political history and introduces us to the leaders whose careers were baptized by blood in a masterful blending of narrative and historical analysis sprinzak begins with the altalena incident of june 1948 the first armed dispute between david ben gurions labor led government and the right wing . Brother against brother violence and extremism in israeli politics from altalena to the rabin assassination user review kirkus the 1995 assassination of yitzhak rabin didnt happen out of tire blue according to this extremely well researched and written study. Brother against brother violence and extremism in israeli politics from altalena to the rabin assassination decade of transition eisenhower kennedy and the origins of the american israeli alliance the making of israeli militarism mastering soldiers conflict emotions and the enemy in an israeli military unit