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The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism
M.Shahid Alam
ISBN: 9780230614840
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
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This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy; A small band of European Zionists entered the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state in Palestine, This was their solution to the 'abnormal' condition of European Jews, who are without a land and were not a nation…
This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy.
| ISBN | 0230614841 | | Pages | 272 | | ISBN13 | 9780230614840 (What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | | Weight (grammes) | 416 | | Imprint | Palgrave Macmillan | | Published in | Basingstoke | | Format | Hardback | | Height (mm) | 217 | | Publication date | 10 Feb 2010 | | Width (mm) | 145 | | Library of Congress | 2009008817 | | Spine width (mm) | 20 | | DEWEY | 320.54095694 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | |
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| I | | Israeli Exceptionalism | | 1 | | 1 | | Varieties of Exceptionalism | | 3 | | 2 | | Sources of Exceptionalism | | 17 | | II | | The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism | | 23 | | 3 | | A Violent History | | 25 | | 4 | | Zionism in Nuce | | 31 | | 5 | | The Arabs Hate Us | | 39 | | 6 | | A Secular Messianism | | 47 | | 7 | | A People Without a Land | | 61 | | 8 | | A Land Without a People | | 71 | | 9 | | Jewish Factors in Zionist Success | | 81 | | 10 | | A Surfeit of Mother Countries | | 95 | | 11 | | British Interests and Zionism | | 103 | | 12 | | Anti-Semitism and Zionism | | 117 | | 13 | | Christian Zionism | | 129 | | 14 | | A Summing Up | | 137 | | III | | Growing a Special Relationship | | 145 | | 15 | | Before the Special Relationship | | 147 | | 16 | | From Liability to Asset | | 163 | | 17 | | Provoking Arab Hostility | | 173 | | 18 | | The June War: Aftermath | | 183 | | 19 | | The Lobby Gains Clout | | 191 | | 20 | | A Summing Up | | 213 | | | | Notes | | 221 | | | | Bibliography | | 251 | | | | Index | | 265 |
"Alam writes with keen purpose and with an ethical point of view, one opposed to the injustices inscribed in Zionist logic, and one that is unfortunately still marginalized in North America."--"Foreign Policy Journal" ""Israeli Exceptionalism" is not only a must read, it is a must-think-about book. To add intellectual spice, every chapter starts with a few quotes of prominent individuals related to the topic at hand. Reading these quotes alone speak volumes of the human tragedy that Zionism evokes."--Sam Bahour, "Arab News" ""Israeli Exceptionalism" is nearly the best introduction to Zionism there is"--"Holy Land Studies" "This is a critically important book. It enhances and expands on the groundbreaking message of Shlomo Sand's work. If Sand shows that Jews were not 'a people' until Zionism created them as such, Alam shows this also and goes well beyond to show how Zionism and its manufactured 'nation' went about dispossessing and replacing the Palestinians and winning all-impor
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