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The pursuit of peace and the crisis of Israeli identity : defending/defining the nation

Title: The pursuit of peace and the crisis of Israeli identity : defending/defining the nation / Dov Waxman.
Author: Waxman, Dov.
Publication: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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viii, 254 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-243) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

1403974586
9781403974587

LCCN

2006041586
9781403974587

OCLC

ocm63165004
63165004
SCSB-14419670

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Princeton University Library