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By Frederick E. Greenspahn

ISBN-10: 1479828947

ISBN-13: 9781479828944

ISBN-10: 1479896802

ISBN-13: 9781479896806

For a rustic smaller than Vermont, with approximately a similar inhabitants as Honduras, sleek Israel gets a impressive volume of realization. For supporters, it's a distinctive bastion of democracy within the center East, whereas detractors view it as a racist outpost of Western colonialism. The romanticization of Israel turned fairly admired in 1967, while its army prowess stunned a Jewish international nonetheless reeling from the feel of powerlessness dramatized via the Holocaust. That imagery has grown ever extra obvious, with Israel’s supporters idealizing its technological achievements and its competitors attributing virtually each challenge within the quarter, if no longer past, to its imperialistic aspirations.

The contradictions and competing perspectives of recent Israel are the topic of this ebook. There is way to contemplate approximately sleek Israel along with the center East clash. over the last new release, a considerable physique of scholarship has explored various elements of the rustic, together with its techniques to citizenship and immigration, the humanities, the women’s move, spiritual fundamentalism, and language; yet a lot of that paintings has so far been constrained in the partitions of the academy. This e-book doesn't search to not get to the bottom of both the country’s inner debates or its fight with the Arab global, yet to offer a pattern of up to date students’ discoveries and discussions approximately smooth Israel in an available approach. In all the parts mentioned, competing narratives grapple for prominence, and it truly is those that are highlighted during this quantity.

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