Liberal Nationalism for Israel: Towards an Israeli National Identity
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Preface to the English-language Edition7Preface to the First Edition20Acknowledgments24Preface to the Second Edition25Prologue: Hillel Kook29Introduction: On Political Normalization37Part 1Foundations: The Israeli Nation and its JudaismChapter 1Concerning Public Responsibility47Chapter 2The Social Contract Theory55Chapter 3The Reaction and Chauvinism65Chapter 4Liberal Nationalism77Chapter 5On Wars of Independence87Chapter 6The Jewish Problem94Chapter 7The Birth of the Jewish Nationalist Movement106Chapter 8Political and Practical Zionism111Chapter 9Zionism and Independence120Chapter 10Faith, Nationality And State129Part 2A National TragedyChapter 11In The National Military Organization141Chapter 12The Bergson Group144Chapter 13Stateless Jews and the Jews of the United States150Chapter 14The Wave of Hostility155Chapter 15For the Rescue of European Jews161Chapter 16National Self-Determination165Chapter 17Peter Bergson to Chaim Weizmann, April 2, 1945175Chapter 18In the Zionist Establishment183Chapter 19The Hebrew Committee for National Liberation and the Irgun National Military Organization192Chapter 20Then and Now198Part 3An Updated Program for the Israeli NationChapter 21Decades of Internal Exile205Chapter 22The Root of the Evil212Chapter 23Is Israel Today a Nation-State?221Chapter 24The Purpose of the Change227Chapter 25The Alternative Plan236Chapter 26Concerning National Minorities243Chapter 27The Need for an Israeli Initiative to Establish Peace in the Middle East252Chapter 28Political Initiative Towards Peace in the Middle East261Chapter 29Israel and the Jews of Other Nations269Chapter 30The New Zionist Myth278Part 4ConclusionsChapter 31Personal Summary: Concerning Israeli National Identity286Chapter 32Cultural Conclusion: Concerning the Unity of the Jewish People293Chapter 33A Political Conclusion: Towards a Transition Period299Notes306Name Index327Subject Index330
\ BooknewsAlarmed at the -derived New Zionist Myth that equates being Israeli with being Jewish, philosopher Agassi (emeritus, Tel-Aviv U. and York U., Toronto) traces the foundations of Israel and advocates separation of synagogue and state. Hebrew versions of the book appeared in 1984 and 1993. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
