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The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy

By Bernard Avishai

Book information

Publisher
Helios Press
Year
2002
ISBN
1581152582, 9781581152586
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
53 MB (55435645 bytes)
Pages
389\410
Topic
History
Time added
2023-03-30 13:58:59
Zionism

Description

The subject of intense controversy when it was first published in 1985, The Tragedy of Zionism provides illuminating insight into the history behind the headlines. Now revised, this poignant chronicle addresses timely and compelling questions: could Israel be a democratic state if, in the name of being a Jewish state, it discriminated against non-Jews, including a fifth of its citizens who are of Palestinian Arab origin? Could it be a Jewish state without granting a privileged position to Jewish orthodoxy? The Tragedy of Zionism calls for democracy as an end in itself, not as a political luxury, but as an indispensable means to settle disputes nonviolently.

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