This was probably one of the most impacting books I have ever read and the most influential in getting an understanding and historical account I was in great need of to understand Israel, the Middle East Conflict and the Church. A collection of essays from various Jewish intellectuals who either lived Israel's history and birth or through their standing in the Jewish Community wrote their impression and their testimonies. For me this book was a key to the Holocaust Theology giving it definition and understanding.The collection includes essays by Isaac Deutscher, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein and others. The essays revealed they were not anti-Zionists, but that they believed that for Israel and the Arabs to find resolution a mutually agreeable solution must be found where the sanctity and the right for the Arabs to prosper as a "valued entity" must occur.