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The Origins of Israeli Mythology - Neither Canaanites Nor Crusaders (Paperback)
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The Origins of Israeli Mythology - Neither Canaanites Nor Crusaders (Paperback)
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We claim that Zionism as a meta-narrative has been formed through
contradiction to two alternative models, the Canaanite and crusader
narratives. These narratives are the most daring and heretical
assaults on Israeli-Jewish identity, which is umbilically connected
to Zionism. The Israelis, according to the Canaanite narrative, are
from this place and belong only here; according to the crusader
narrative, they are from another place and belong there. On the one
hand, the mythological construction of Zionism as a modern crusade
describes Israel as a Western colonial enterprise planted in the
heart of the East and alien to the area, its logic, and its
peoples, whose end must be degeneration and defeat. On the other
hand, the nativist construction of Israel as neo-Canaanism, which
defined the nation in purely geographical terms as an imagined
native community, demands breaking away from the chain of
historical continuity. Those are the two greatest anxieties that
Zionism and Israel needed to encounter and answer forcefully. The
Origins of Israeli Mythology seeks to examine the intellectual
archaeology of Israeli mythology, as it reveals itself through the
Canaanite and crusader narratives.
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