The Greater Blindness Israel Facing Radical Islam

In The Great Blindness, acclaimed foreign correspondent and author Charles Enderlin delivers a piercing, document-backed analysis of Israeli security and foreign policy regarding radical Islamist movements. Enderlin uncovers what he identifies as a catastrophic strategic blind spot: the reliance on short-term tactical maneuvers designed to manage rather than resolve the core conflict. The narrative exposes how successive decision-makers leveraged Palestinian political fragmentation to neutralize progress toward a two-state solution, ultimately enabling conditions that strengthened extremist alternatives. By mapping the convergence of state political calculations with rising religious messianism and radical ideology, Enderlin provides an indispensable structural critique of how security illusions transformed a geopolitical dispute into a intractable confrontation.

It provides a deeply researched, unflinching examination of contemporary Middle Eastern geopolitics, offering essential tools to understand the systemic roots and strategic failures shaping the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Ideal for political analysts, historians, security studies researchers, students of Middle Eastern affairs, international relations scholars, and readers seeking an authoritative, insider account of political decision-making in the region.