The pursuit of peace and the crisis of Israeli identity : defending/defining the nation / Dov Waxman.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006Edition: First editionDescription: viii, 254 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1403974586
- 9781403974587
- 956.94054 22
- DS113.3 .W39 2006
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Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 956.94054 WAX (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A374596B |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-243) and index.
1. The construction of Israeli national identity : from Jews to Israelis and back again -- 2. Between isolation and integration : foreign policy and Israeli national identity -- 3. Out of the ghetto : the Oslo peace process and Israeli national identity -- 4. The crisis of Israeli national identity -- 5. The return of the other -- Conclusion : Israel's identity crisis in global perspective.
"No issue has aroused greater controversy in Israel in the 1990s than the Oslo peace process. Despite its promise of peace and security, the Israeli public and political system was bitterly divided over it. Why did the peace process arouse such intense controversy in Israel? What caused Israelis to fight so bitterly? By viewing Israeli foreign policy through the lens of identity, instead of just the narrow lens of security, this book reveals that behind the internal division over the peace process were profound differences over the definition of Israeli national identity - who Israelis are and who they should be."--BOOK JACKET.
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