The Tragedy of Zionism How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy

Free Download Bernard Avishai, "The Tragedy of Zionism: How Its Revolutionary Past Haunts Israeli Democracy"
English | ISBN: 1581152582 | 2002 | 400 pages | PDF | 53 MB
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.