Plowshares into Swords - From Zionism to Israel (Hardcover)


This rich, authoritative history chronicles the Zionist Israeli quest from itsorigins in pre-Great War Europe. Plowshares Into Swords traces the development ofpolitical Zionism's primal resolve to implant a state for Jews in aMiddle East of ever greater strategic importance. In it, Mayer provides newperspectives on key turning points as well as on such enduring issuesas the young country's dire need for imperial protection, the oilimperative, the hidden ascendance of Jabotinsky's martial andexpansionist canon, and reliance on the American Jewish and Christianevangelical lobbies. He examines, too, the post-colonial backlash against Westernsupremacy, the asymmetry of power between Israelis and Palestinians,the Zionist Israeli leaders' studied prevarication on borders, and theemergence of political Judaism and political Islam. Incorporatingreflections on founding violence, sovereignty, resistance, terror, andreligious politics, Plowshares into Swords is an absorbing, challenging narrative of Zionism and Israel in the context of world history.

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This rich, authoritative history chronicles the Zionist Israeli quest from itsorigins in pre-Great War Europe. Plowshares Into Swords traces the development ofpolitical Zionism's primal resolve to implant a state for Jews in aMiddle East of ever greater strategic importance. In it, Mayer provides newperspectives on key turning points as well as on such enduring issuesas the young country's dire need for imperial protection, the oilimperative, the hidden ascendance of Jabotinsky's martial andexpansionist canon, and reliance on the American Jewish and Christianevangelical lobbies. He examines, too, the post-colonial backlash against Westernsupremacy, the asymmetry of power between Israelis and Palestinians,the Zionist Israeli leaders' studied prevarication on borders, and theemergence of political Judaism and political Islam. Incorporatingreflections on founding violence, sovereignty, resistance, terror, andreligious politics, Plowshares into Swords is an absorbing, challenging narrative of Zionism and Israel in the context of world history.

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Imprint

Verso Books

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

August 2008

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First published

June 2008

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Dimensions

241 x 165 x 41mm (L x W x T)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

432

ISBN-13

978-1-84467-235-6

Barcode

9781844672356

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LSN

1-84467-235-2



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