Contested Land, Contested Memory: Israel's Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe by Jo Roberts (2013-09-10) by Jo Roberts

Author:Jo Roberts [Roberts, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01LP8UX1G
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1633-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Israel differs from other countries in its need to justify — to the rest of the world, and to itself — its very right to exist. Most countries need no such ideological justifications. But Israel does — because most of its Arab neighbors have not recognized it and because most of the Jews of the world prefer to live in other countries. So long as these factors remain true, Zionism will be on the defensive. As a justification for the State of Israel, the Holocaust is comparable only to the divine promise contained in the Bible: It seems to be definitive proof of the Zionist argument that Jews can live in security and with full equal rights only in their own country‡‡ and that they therefore must have an autonomous and sovereign state, strong enough to defend its existence. Yet, from war to war, it has become clear that there are many places in the world where Jews are safer than in Israel.[14]

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