| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 274 pages) |
| Contents |
Israeli exceptionalism. Varieties of Israeli exceptionalism -- Sources of exceptionalism -- The destabilizing logic of Zionism. A violent history -- Zionism in nuce -- The Arabs hate us -- A secular messianism -- A people without a land -- A land without a people -- Jewish factors in Zionist success -- A surfeit of mother countries -- British interests and Zionism -- Anti-semitism and Zionism -- Christian Zionism -- A summing up -- Growing a special relationship. Before the special relationship -- From liability to asset -- Provoking Arab hostility -- The June war : aftermath -- The lobby gains clout -- A summing up |
| Summary |
This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy. A small band of European Zionists enters the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state in Palestine. This is their solution to the 'abnormal' condition of European Jews, who are without a land and are not a nation. To achieve this, they must seize Palestine; induce Western Jews to become colonists; and, above all, recruit Western powers to adopt their colonial project. Zionists can only succeed by creating Islamicate enemies; they need resurgent anti-Semitism to send Jewish colons to Palestine; and they must persuade/coerce the West to stand behind their colonial project. In succeeding, the Zionists merely transplant Jewish abnormality from Europe to the Middle East - and make it worse. In Europe, Jewish-Gentile frictions were local problems; in Israel, ominously, they have come to form the pivot of a global conflict that pits the West against the Islamicate |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Zionism -- Israel -- History
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Exceptionalism -- Israel
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International relations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
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Politics and Government.
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Exceptionalism
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Politics and government
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Zionism
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| SUBJECT |
Israel -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068700
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| Subject |
Israel
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230101371 |
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0230101372 |
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9780230614840 |
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0230614841 |
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1282742205 |
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9781282742208 |
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9780230619982 |
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0230619983 |
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9786612742200 |
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6612742208 |
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