http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/14/idea-israel-ilan-pappe-promised-land-ari-shavit-review
The Idea of Israel and My Promised Land – review
The
moral consequences of the triumph of Zionism: Ilan Pappé and Ari Shavit
view Israel from different vantage points, but they agree the status
quo between Israel and the Palestinians can't be sustained
The separation wall on the West Bank that divides Palestinians and Israelis. Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty |
Zionism achieved its greatest triumph with the establishment of the state of Israel
in 1948. The Zionist idea and its principal political progeny are the
subject of deeply divergent interpretations, not least inside the Jewish
state itself. No other aspect of Zionism, however, is more
controversial than its attitude towards the indigenous population of the
land of its dreams. Chaim Weizmann, the first president of the state of
Israel, famously said that it is by its treatment of the Palestinians
that his country will be judged. Yet, when judged by this criterion,
Zionism is not just an unqualified failure but a tragedy of historic
proportions. Zionism did achieve its central goal but at a terrible
price: the displacement and dispossession of the Palestinians – what the
Arabs call the Nakba, the catastrophe.
The authors of these two books are both Israelis...READ MORE
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