Israel-Palestine
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-1-5095-6440-8 (ISBN)
For many years, politicians and citizens of different persuasions have called for a two-state solution – two independent states, Israel and Palestine, co-existing side by side. This was Shlomo Sand’s view too: a distinguished Israeli historian and political activist on the left, he had long supported the idea of a two-state solution. But as more and more settlements were built in the occupied West Bank and millions of Palestinians were forced to live in a situation of de facto apartheid, deprived of their basic civil rights and political freedoms, he came to the conclusion that the two-state solution had become an empty formula that no one seriously intended to implement.
It was in this context that Sand sought to find an alternative way out of the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio. His journey into the dark corners of Zionism’s ideological past threw up some surprises. He discovered that some Zionists and other Jewish intellectuals had rejected the idea of an exclusive Jewish state and had supported moves to create a bi-national federation. They believed that only egalitarian integration within the framework of a common state would ensure that Israel could be a safe haven for all of its inhabitants. While the chances of realizing this egalitarian vision may seem remote in the current hostile context, it may well be that a bi-national state in which Israelis and Palestinians are treated as equals is the only realistic solution in the end.
Shlomo Sand is Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University. His many books include The Invention of the Jewish People (2008), The Invention of the Land of Israel (2012), How I Stopped Being a Jew (2013) and A Brief Global History of the Left (2023).
Preface1. "Land of the Ancestors" or Land of the Indigenous People
2. "When a Slave Becomes a King": A Hidden Question
3. Alliance of Peace Against the "Iron Wall"
4. Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, and the un-divided territory
5. Theopolitics and the Pacifist Ihud Association
6. The Left and "Fraternity Between Peoples"
7. Semitic Action and an Arab-Hebrew Federation
8. 1967 - A Land to be Shared or a Land to be Unified?
9. "You Can't Clap With One Hand"
10. Alternatives: Apartheid? Transfer? Or A Binational Compromise?
Afterword
| Erscheinungsdatum | 07.09.2024 |
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| Übersetzer | Robin Mackay |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5095-6440-3 / 1509564403 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5095-6440-8 / 9781509564408 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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