Description
Book SynopsisAnalyses the myths -- religious and cultural -- that are used to justify the aggressive expansionist policies of Israel.
Trade Review'An impressive work of deconstruction with many crucial new insights and written in such an accessible way, despite the very complicated issues with which the author deals' -- Ilan Pappe
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction
1. ‘The Bible is our Mandate’
2. ‘The Distinguishing Characteristic of the Jews has been their Exile’
3. ‘…Eighteen Centuries of Jewish Suffering’
4. ‘Us’ Jews ‘Them’ Arabs: A Message from a Cairo synagogue, a thousand years ago
5. ‘A land without people ...
6. …for a people without land’
7. Plucky Little Israel or Great Power Protégé?: Britain & the Zionist colony in Palestine
8. ‘The Nazi Holocaust proved the urgency for a Jewish State’
9. Plucky Little Israel or Great Power Protégé?: How Israel Became a Strategic Asset for the United States
10. ‘Us Jews Them Arabs’: The Lost Jewish Arab symbiosis - in search of the ‘spark of hope in the past’
Conclusion ‘Out of the Ashes’
Bibliography
Index
