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Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel (Paperback)
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Victimhood Discourse in Contemporary Israel (Paperback)
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This book deals comprehensively with different aspects of
collective victimhood in contemporary Israel, but also with the
wider implications of this important concept for many other
societies, including the Palestinian one. The eight highly-diverse,
scholarly chapters included in this volume offer analysis of the
politics of victimhood (viewing it as increasingly dominant within
contemporary Israel), assess victimhood as a focal point of the
Jewish historical legacy, trace the evolution and changes of
Zionist thought as it relates to a sense of national victimhood,
study the possibility of the political transformation of victimhood
through changing perceptions and policies by top Israeli leaders,
focus on important events that have contributed to the evolvement
of the victimhood discourse in Israel and beyond (e.g. the 1967
Six-Day and 1973 Yom Kippur wars in the Middle East), examine the
politics and ideology of victimhood within the Palestinian national
movement, and offer new ways of progressing beyond national
victimhood and toward a better future for people in the Middle East
and beyond. The insights of the eight authors and their
conceptualization of Israeli victimhood are of immediate relevance
for numerous other national groups, as well as for a variety of
disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences. This volume
has been inspired by the universality of victimhood among humans,
reflected in King Lear's words ("I am a man more sinned against
than sinning"), as well as by the words of the late Israeli prime
minister Yitzhak Rabin, telling the Knesset in Jerusalem: "No
longer is it true that the whole world is against us". While the
book sums up the state of the field in regard to collective
victimhood, it invites the readers to engage in contemplating the
far-reaching implications of this important concept for our lives.
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