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The West Bank: history, politics, society, and economy
In: Westview special studies on the Middle East
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The October War: A Retrospective
In: Journal of Palestine studies, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 109-110
ISSN: 1533-8614
The October War: A Retrospective
In: Journal of Palestine studies: a quarterly on Palestinian affairs and the Arab-Israeli conflict, Volume 33, Issue 2, p. 109
ISSN: 0377-919X, 0047-2654
ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: Trapped Fools: Thirty Years of Israeli Policy in the Territories
In: The Middle East journal, Volume 58, Issue 2, p. 302-304
ISSN: 0026-3141
The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 118, Issue 2, p. 361-363
ISSN: 1538-165X
TAREQ Y. ISMAEL, Middle East Politics Today: Government and Civil Society (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001). Pp. 528. $59.95 cloth
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 35, Issue 1, p. 198-199
ISSN: 1471-6380
The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories by David Kretzmer
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Volume 118, Issue 2, p. 361-362
ISSN: 0032-3195
Revisiting the Yom Kippur War (review)
In: Shofar: a quarterly interdisciplinary journal of Jewish studies ; official journal of the Midwest and Western Jewish Studies Associations, Volume 20, Issue 4, p. 135-136
ISSN: 1534-5165
Between Consent and Dissent: Democracy and Peace in the Israeli Mind
In: Perspectives on political science, Volume 31, Issue 2, p. 119
ISSN: 1045-7097
ZEEV STERNHELL, The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State, trans. David Maisel (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997). Pp. 432. $18.95
In: International journal of Middle East studies: IJMES, Volume 33, Issue 4, p. 633-635
ISSN: 1471-6380
The principal focus of Zeev Sternhell's screed is Labor Zionism, although like other
Israeli so-called new historians, he touches on relations with the country's Arabs, tensions
between the Ashkenazi elite and Sephardi under-class, the Yishuv and the Holocaust, and
attitudes toward and perceptions of Diaspora Jewry. The author, whose professional field has
been European history, mainly France and Italy, was motivated to undertake this study by
"serious doubts" (p. ix) about the generally accepted ideas sanctioned by Israeli
historiography and social science. Using his skills as a professional historian, he probed Zionist
and Israeli government archives and reread original texts to compare what he perceived as social
and political realities with the ideology guiding policies. Sternhell is critical of traditional Israeli
historiography because of the damage it has caused by separating Jewish history from general
history. The consequences, he asserts, are "truly appalling" (p. x), resulting in
paralysis of any real critical sense and perpetuation of "myths flattering to Israel's
collective identity" (p. x). This has led many historians of Zionism "to lock
themselves up in an intellectual ghetto" (p. x), leading to ignorance and emotional
blindness.