1st Edition

The Emergence Of A Binational Israel The Second Republic In The Making

By Ilan Peleg, Ofira Seliktar Copyright 1989
    243 Pages
    by Routledge

    243 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book deals with the State of Israel as a binational political entity, focusing on patterns of political behavior in Israel today in an atmosphere of continuing crisis, growing fragmentation and polarization, and important changes in the country's domestic and international environment.

    Preface -- Binationalism as a Concept and as a History -- Conceptualizing Binationalism: State of Mind, Political Reality, or Legal Entity? -- Binationalism Reconsidered: Ideological Continuity and Change in the Begin Era -- The Binational Idea in Mandatory Times and Today: A Personal Evaluation -- The Politics of the Second Republic -- Fragmentation and Polarization in Greater Israel: Political Behavior in Perpetual Crisis -- The Political Road to Binationalism: Arabs in Jewish Politics -- The People's View on the Resolution of the Israeli-Arab Conflict -- The Impact of Occupation on the Military: The Case of the IDF, 1967–1987 -- The Economy of Binational Israel -- International Implications of a Binational Israel -- Israel and the Arab States in the Binational Era -- The United States and a Binational Israel -- Epilogue: The Future of Binational Israel—Beyond the Winter of Discontent

    Biography

    Iian Peleg, Ofira Seliktar