The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy
This original and acclaimed book explores how the impetus to settle in the "Whole" Land of Israel after 1967 derived from unexamined Zionist commitments which, though perhaps defensible in the 1930s, have become increasingly dangerous for Israeli democracy since the 1980s. It is also a chronicle of the unexpected, tragic ways the heroic Zionist theories and institutions have come to threaten Israeli democracy and to burden relations with Palestinians since the Six Day War.The subject of...
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Prologue: Summer 2002Pt. 1Revolution: The Making of Zionist InstitutionsIntroduction: The Jewish Problem151Political Zionism222Cultural Zionism453The Conquest of Labor674Class to Nation99Pt. 2The Contradictions of Self-determination5Independence or Colonialism1356State and Revolution1727The End of Zionism?204Pt. 3New Zionism and the Trial of Israeli Democracy8A New Zionism for Greater Israel2359The West Bank Tragedy27210Democracy or Zionism?297Conclusion: The Divisions of Unity and Beyond326Epilogue: Tribal Warfare349Notes371Index379
