La paz sin excusa / Unexcused Peace
Non-fiction , 2004
Tusquets
Pages: 248
The prestigious Israeli journalist Gabriel Stern relates that while patrolling an abandoned hospital in 1948 Jerusalem, he came face to face with an armed man. Terrified, Stern fired immediately—only to shatter a mirror that had reflected his own image: his fear had conjured an enemy, and he had rushed to shoot it down. In Unexcused Peace, José María Ridao brilliantly reflects on the processes through which enemies—and, by extension, borders—are constructed. For it is precisely from these constructs that geographical, national, religious, or racial boundaries are defined, and violence and war are unleashed and justified.