TY  - BOOK
AU  - Waxman,Dov
TI  - The pursuit of peace and the crisis of Israeli identity: defending/defining the nation 
SN  - 1403974586
AV  - DS113.3 .W39 2006
U1  - 956.94054 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - National characteristics, Israeli
KW  - Jews
KW  - Israel
KW  - Identity
KW  - Arab-Israeli conflict
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -