Israeli exceptionalism
Subtitle: the destabilizing logic of Zionism
By: M. Shahid Alam.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780230614840
Subjects: Zionism -- Israel -- History; Israel -- Politics and government
Table of contents: title: Section one : Israeli exceptionalism; title: Varieties of Israeli exceptionalism; title: Sources of Israeli exceptionalism; title: Section two : dynamite in its foundations; title: A violent history; title: Zionism in nuce; title: The Arabs hate us; title: A secular messianism; title: A people without land; title: Land without a people; title: Jewish factors in Zionist success; title: A surfeit of "mother countries"; title: British interests and Zionism; title: Anti-semitism and Zionist strategy; title: Christian Zionism; title: A summing up; title: Section three : growing a special relationship; title: Before the special relationship; title: From liability to asset; title: Provoking Arab hostility; title: June war : aftermath; title: The lobby gains clout; title: A framework for analyzing Zionism.