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Israeli exceptionalism : the destabilizing logic of Zionism / M. Shahid Alam.
Van Pelt Library DS149.5.I75 A43 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alam, M. Shahid (Mohammad Shahid), 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zionism--Israel--History.
- Zionism.
- Exceptionalism.
- History.
- Israel--Politics and government.
- Israel.
- Politics and government.
- Exceptionalism--Israel.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 274 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
- Contents:
- I: Israeli exceptionalism
- Varieties of exceptionalism
- Sources of exceptionalism
- II: The destabilizing logic of Zionism
- A violent history
- Zionism in nuce
- The Arabs hate us
- A secular messianism
- A people without a land
- A land without a people
- Jewish factors in Zionist success
- A surfeit of mother countries
- British interests and Zionism
- Anti-semitism and Zionism
- Christian Zionism
- A summing up
- III: growing a special relationship
- Before the special relationship
- From liability to asset
- Provoking Arab hostility
- June war: aftermath
- The lobby gains clout
- A summing up.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-264) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230614840
- 0230614841
- OCLC:
- 312445687
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