Pangs of the Messiah: The Troubled Birth of the Jewish State
He shows that virtually every major problem faced by contemporary Israel, a half-century after it came into existence, was foreshadowed by the events and circumstances that precipitated and conditioned its emergence. Sicker examines the seemingly irreconcilable differences between the left and right extremes of the political spectrum; between the religious community and the secular; and between the Zionists and the anti-Zionists. Today, a half-century later, these same issues are causing an increasing polarization of Israeli society, with uncertain ramifications for the future. |
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eral Zionists , with some 300 delegates representing the political center . This meant , in effect , that there was a fundamental difference in perspective between the leadership of the World Zionist Organization and that of the Yishuv ...
a Since his resignation from the Zionist Executive in October 1930 , Weizmann had remained interim head of the movement , pending elections to the Seventeenth Zionist Congress that began on June 30 , 1931 , in Basel .
2 But this argument was seen by many as no longer realistic , given the gains achieved by the Arabs as a result of British policy , which in itself was a reflection of Zionist complacency . Jabotinsky took the position that economic ...
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British Military Government 19181920 | 1 |
The Jewish High Commissioner | 27 |
Internal Developments During the Samuel Regime | 53 |
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