Herzl's Nightmare

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'Peter Rogers is a brave man. He has had the courage to write what many of us feel about the Arab-israeí confüct but dare not say-that our world is hostage to a struggle with no apparent soíution in a blood-soaked land that is captive to its past ...The end of the Zionist dream may already be upon us. What will reptace it? This is a brlffiant, timely and disturbing book.' - Phillip Knightfey Theodor Herzl's dream of a national home for the Jews was a triumph achieved in little more than half a century. Yet it was made possible only through the deaths of millions of European Jews and the fragmentation of Palestinian society. Whatever their historical or emotional attachment to the land they came to rule, the Jews of Israel had supplanted another people- another people who would not forget. Herzl's dream of ending Jewish insecurity, once and for all, would prove illusory. This i m portant new study shows how little the dynamics of the conflict between Jew and Palestinian have changed;... Tovább

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'Peter Rogers is a brave man. He has had the courage to write what many of us feel about the Arab-israeí confüct but dare not say-that our world is hostage to a struggle with no apparent soíution in a blood-soaked land that is captive to its past ...The end of the Zionist dream may already be upon us. What will reptace it? This is a brlffiant, timely and disturbing book.' - Phillip Knightfey Theodor Herzl's dream of a national home for the Jews was a triumph achieved in little more than half a century. Yet it was made possible only through the deaths of millions of European Jews and the fragmentation of Palestinian society. Whatever their historical or emotional attachment to the land they came to rule, the Jews of Israel had supplanted another people- another people who would not forget. Herzl's dream of ending Jewish insecurity, once and for all, would prove illusory. This i m portant new study shows how little the dynamics of the conflict between Jew and Palestinian have changed; how eerily reminiscent today's antagonisms and falsehoods are of yesteryear; how 'modern' leadership is anything but; and how much today's self-righteous intransigence owes to what went before. It poses the vitai question: have the nationalist dreams of both peoples been doomed by the determined refusal of Jew and Palestinian to contemplate what life must be be like for the other? Vissza