Zionism in Arab discourses introduces a groundbreaking thesis to the study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring', the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played the dual function of an enemy and a mentor. Arab Islamists and liberals alike discovered respectively in Zionism and in Israeli society - or more precisely, in Zionism and Israeli society as constructed by them to fit their specific agendas - qualities they sought to implement in their societies,...