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Israel-Palestine: Federation or Apartheid? Kindle Edition
by Shlomo Sand (Author), Robin Mackay (Translator) Format: Kindle Edition
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Since the brutal massacre perpetrated by Hamas on 7 October and the subsequent bombing and invasion of Gaza, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been thrust back to the centre of the world’s attention. How can this deep-rooted conflict, stretching back for more than 75 years, be brought to an end? What kind of political structure might one day enable Israelis and Palestinians to overcome the seemingly interminable cycle of violence and live in peace with one another?
For many years, politicians and citizens of different persuasions have called for a two-state solution – two independent states, Israel and Palestine, co-existing side by side. This was Shlomo Sand’s view too: a distinguished Israeli historian and political activist on the left, he had long supported the idea of a two-state solution. But as more and more settlements were built in the occupied West Bank and millions of Palestinians were forced to live in a situation of de facto apartheid, deprived of their basic civil rights and political freedoms, he came to the conclusion that the two-state solution had become an empty formula that no one seriously intended to implement.
It was in this context that Sand sought to find an alternative way out of the Israeli-Palestinian imbroglio. His journey into the dark corners of Zionism’s ideological past threw up some surprises. He discovered that some Zionists and other Jewish intellectuals had rejected the idea of an exclusive Jewish state and had supported moves to create a bi-national federation. They believed that only egalitarian integration within the framework of a common state would ensure that Israel could be a safe haven for all of its inhabitants. While the chances of realizing this egalitarian vision may seem remote in the current hostile context, it may well be that a bi-national state in which Israelis and Palestinians are treated as equals is the only realistic solution in the end.
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"While Shlomo Sand is not optimistic about the future of Israel–Palestine, he finds some grounds for hope in the inability of anyone to act effectively without recognizing the one-state reality that de facto annexation has created, a transformation in the structure of the problem that pushes all agents within the matrix of Israeli–Palestinian relations to explore new, or at least unfamiliar, strategies for sharing a space filled once again with both Arabs and Jews."
Ian Lustick, University of Pennsylvania
“calm yet compelling […] This is an important and informative account that challenges readers to rethink their assumptions.”
The Philosopher
“Insightful … Shlomo Sand shows how Israel today faces a dead end, partly due to the contradictions of its ethnonational project: a state for Jews and Jews only, which alienates and treats its non-Jewish residents as second-class citizens.”
Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Boston Review
“A sobering look at the complexities of even beginning to talk about peace in the Middle East.”
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"without illusions, and with clarity and honesty, this Israeli historian goes back into the past to pick up a strand of internal critique within the Zionist movement itself that has always been marginal but has never gone away and the warnings of which have been proved right in the current catastrophic situation. This marginal strand is now re-emerging, with a possibility, very remote though it seems, that it could become a very slender Ariadne’s thread of hope to guide the two peoples, through the present dark and ominous labyrinth, towards an alternative future."
Jewish Voice for Labour
About the Author
Jonathan Todd Ross, a graduate of the NYU/Tisch School of the Arts, has narrated over 120 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres, including fiction, nonfiction, self-help, YA, biography and memoir, children's literature, and romance. He's won an Audie Award (Restart by Gordon Korman), received numerous YALSA and Earphone Awards (Swindle by Gordon Korman, Fake Mustache by Tom Angleberger, and more), and made all of his middle school bullies regret every mean thing they ever said to him when he narrated Tom Brady's The TB12 Method. Jonathan loves narrating all genres, bringing the author's words to audio-life.
Shlomo Sand studied history at the University of Tel Aviv and at the École des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, in Paris. He currently teaches contemporary history at the University of Tel Aviv. His books include The Invention of the Jewish People, On the Nation and the Jewish People, L'Illusion du politique: Georges Sorel et le debat intellectuel 1900, Georges Sorel en son temps, Le XXe siecle a l'ecran, and Les Mots et la terre: les intellectuels en Israel.
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ASIN : B0DDW12KPY
Publisher : Polity
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Publication date : 20 August 2024
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From Australia
Roberto Perez-Franco
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn about early Zionists who proposed peaceful coexistence
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I'm neither Jew nor Arab, but I am interested in the topic of the conflicts in Palestine. I thank Prof Sandy for the books that he has written on the topic, and admire his intellectual honesty and integrity. I have almost all his books, in their English translations, and am currently reading three of them: How I stopped being a Jew (the book that made him a hero of mine), The Invention of the Land of Israel, and the latest, which in English is titled Israel-Palestine: Federation or Apartheid?, but in French had a different title. In this last one about the Brit Shalom gang, and I found immense solace in the learning about the early Zionists like Yitzak Epstein, Hugo Bergmann, Hans Kohn, Rabbi Binyamin, and to a large extent also Gershom Scholem. Reading their words, their prophetic words warning of the conflict that would come, helped me sooth some of the anger I feel for what is happening in Gaza, because it showed me that the warnings were articulated loud and clear back then. I find myself reflected in their thoughts in a way that I seldom experience when reading about this topic.
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