The relationship between the Italian leftist parties and the conflict in the Middle East : the parliamentarian left and the Israeli - Arab Palestinian question / by Nicola Seu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seu, Nicola, 1978- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Physical Description:

viii, 163 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Israel went from being a symbol of the success of the labour movement to the personification of Western imperialism almost overnight. How was this possible? How could such a radical change occur in such a short length of time? Was it because of negligence within the Italian left resulting from a complex of excessive friendship towards the Jews and Israel? Has the analytical power within leftist political thought grown to shed new light on what was before veiled? It is difficult to believe that the presumed colonialist nature of Israel was not evident before the outbreak of the Six-Day War, just as it is not possible that the real nature of Zionism and the situation of the Palestinian victims were invisible prior to this event. Through an historical, political, and ideological investigation, this book explores this extraordinary, and multifaceted, phenomenon. Book jacket.

Contents:

From 1948 to 1967: The Years between the Establishment of the State of Israel and the Outbreak of the Six-Day War 21

1 P.C.I.: The Italian Communist Party

1a After the Second World War

1b The war of Independence

1c The Slanski affair and Doctor's plot

1d From the Suez crisis to the Six-Day War

2 The Socialist Parties

2a The early years

2b From the Suez crisis to the Six-Day War

2c Pietro Nenni

3 P.S.I, and P.O.: a comparison

From 1967 to 1989: Tire Years of the Discovery of the Palestinian Question and of the Higher Interest of the Italian Leftist Parties in the Middle Eastern Conflict 45

1 The Six-Day War

2 The P.C.I.: The Italian Communist Party

2a The discovery of the Palestinian cause

2b Further developments and the issue of terrorism

2c From the Yom Kippur War to Lebanon

2d From "Peace in Galilee" to the Declaration of Independence

2e Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism

2f A 1967-1989 survey on the P.C.I.

3 The Socialist Parties

3a On Israel's side

3b Shifting to the Palestinian side

3c Bettino Craxi: the early years of the secretariat

3d Bettino Craxi: the years of the government

3e Overview of the Italian socialists

4 Communists and socialists: differences and similarities

From 1989 to the Present Day: The Years of the End of Ideologies, and a Change in the Parties' Roles in the Italian Political Scenario 125

1 From the fall of the Berlin Wall to the Tangentopoli earthquake

2 From Tangentopoli onwards

3 Pisapia's Milan administration.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781443888059

1443888052

OCLC:

945359009

Publisher Number:

99967282512