Jewish statehood was restored in 1948 amid a struggle over
legitimacy that has persisted in Israel ever since: Who rules? Who
decides? Antagonism between the political left and right erupted
into bloody violence over the Altalena. Secular-religious discord
even made defining who is a Jew in a Jewish state contentious.
After the Six-Day War, the return of religious Zionist settlers
to biblical Judea and Samaria reframed the struggle over
legitimacy. Who decides where in the Land of Israel Jews may live:
settlers and rabbis or the government? Israel's invasion of Lebanon
in 1982 provoked the first significant eruption of military
disobedience, undermining the authority of the Israel Defense
Forces with competing claims of personal conscience.
Ever since the United Nations declared Zionism to be "a form of
racism," Israel has confronted an escalating international assault
on its legitimacy. In political, academic, media, and cultural
circles it has been demonized as an "apartheid," even "Nazi," state
that much of the world despises.
These conflicts are explored in this illuminating study of the
dilemmas of legitimacy in the world's only Jewish state and most
reviled pariah nation.
A new addition to the "Contemporary Society Series" from Quid
Pro Books.
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