Israeli Exceptionalism: The Destabilizing Logic of Zionism

by Mohammad Shahid Alam

Book Overview

This book discerns in the history of Zionism the plot of a Shakespearean tragedy. A small band of European Zionists enters the world stage in late 19th century, determined to create a Jewish state in Palestine. This is their solution to the 'abnormal' condition of European Jews, who are without a land and are not a nation. To achieve this, they must seize Palestine; induce Western Jews to become colonists; and, above all, recruit Western powers to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230619983
• ISBN13: 9780230619982
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"