| Description |
1 online resource (498 pages) |
| Contents |
Illustrations; Maps; Acknowledgements; Glossaries; Political Parties and Groups; General Glossary; Name Glossary; Prime Ministers of Israel; Chronology; Preface to the second edition: Towards 2020; Introduction; Chapter 1 Zionism and security; Zionism Beyond Demonization; The Need for Security; Jewish Socialism and Arab Nationalism; Chapter 2 The Hebrew Republic; The End of Empire; Defeat and Victory In 1948; Exile and Return; Chapter 3 New Immigrants and First Elections; The Survivors; Jewish Immigration into Palestine; The First Elections; The Dominance of Mapai |
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Chapter 4 The Politics of PietyThe Balancing Act; Who is a Jew?; The Arrival of the Sephardim; Chapter 5 Retaliation or Self-Restraint; Ben-Gurion, Sharett and Dayan; The Developing Schism; Nasser's Metamorphosis; Stalin's Embrace; The Return of Ben-Gurion; The Search for Arms; The Road to Suez; Chapter 6 The Rise of the Right; The Six Day War; Destroying Mapai from Within; Out of the Underground; The Ideology of Occupation; Judea and Samaria; Chapter 7 The Road to Beirut; Menachem Begins Leadership; Who Are the Palestinians?; The Reality of Negotiations; A More Radical Hue |
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Chapter 8 Dissent At Home and AbroadThe End of Consensus; The Peace Camp; Traditional Diaspora Opinions; A New Assertive Generation; Chapter 9 An Insurrection Before A Handshake; The Man from Lehi; A New Path for the Palestinians; The Outbreak of the Intifada; An Israeli Awakening; The Fall and Rise of Ideology; Constraining the Prime Minister; From Kuwait to Madrid; Chapter 10 The End of Ideology?; The Problem Solver; The Oslo Breakthrough; The Plo in Crisis; Chapter 11 The Killing of A Prime Minister; The Return of the Rejectionists; The Right's Backlash; Rabbis and Ayatollahs |
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Chapter 12 The Magician and the BulldozerThe Virtual and the Real Likud; A Return to Camp David; A Long Walk to Disaster; The Descent into the Abyss; Chapter 13 -He Does not stop at the Red Light'; 2001: A Sharon Odyssey; The Palestinian Struggle Within; Islamism Ascending; Disengagement from Gaza; Chapter 14 An Unlikely Grandfather; Ideology and Evacuation; Separating from the Palestinians; Between Pragmatism and Ideology; Olmert's Arrival and Hamas's Ascent; The Rise of Hezbollah; Chapter 15 A brotherly conflict; The Aftermath of the Lebanon War; The Taking of Gaza; A Syrian Bomb? |
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Teheran and the Missile WarChapter 16 Bialik's bequest?; The Calm before the Storm; Operation Cast Lead; Goldstone in the Quagmire; Chapter 17 Stagnation and isolationism; Blockades and Flotillas; Settlers and Settlements; Dithering in the White House?; Chapter 18 An Arab Spring and an Israeli winter?; A Downward Spiral?; Israel and the Arab Spring; An Unknown Future; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The new edition of Colin Shindler's history of Israel traces the nation's developments from 1948 to the present day |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Israel -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068697
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| Subject |
Israel
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781107308978 |
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1107308976 |
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