Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

ISBN-13: 9780745325699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 320 str.

Joel Kovel

Opis

Joel Kovel argues that the inner contradictions of Zionism have led Israel to a state-sponsored racism fully as incorrigible as that of apartheid South Africa and deserving of the same resolution. Only a path toward a single-state secular democracy can provide the justice essential to healing the wounds of the Middle East.
Kovel is well-known writer on the Middle East conflict. This book draws on his detailed knowledge to show that Zionism and democracy are essentially incompatible. He offers a thoughtful account of the emergence and disintegration of Zionism that integrates psychological, political, cultural, economic, and ideological levels.
Ultimately, Kovel argues, a two-state solution is essentially hopeless as it concedes too much to the regressive forces of nationalism, wherein lie the roots of continued conflict."