A dramatic shift is taking place in Israel and America. In Israel,
the deepening occupation of the West Bank is putting Israeli
democracy at risk. In the United States, the refusal of major
Jewish organisations to defend democracy in the Jewish state is
alienating many young liberal Jews from Zionism itself. In the next
generation, the liberal Zionist dream, the dream of a state that
safeguards the Jewish people and cherishes democratic ideals, may
die. In The Crisis of Zionism, Peter Beinart lays out in chilling
detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American
Jewish establishment's refusal to confront it. And he offers a
fascinating, groundbreaking portrait of the two leaders at the
centre of the crisis- Barack Obama, America's first 'Jewish
president', a man steeped in the liberalism he learned from his
many Jewish friends and mentors in Chicago; and Benjamin Netanyahu,
the Israeli prime minister who considers liberalism the Jewish
people's special curse. These two men embody fundamentally
different visions, not just of American and Israeli national
interests, but of the mission of the Jewish people itself. Beinart
concludes with provocative
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