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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The leaders of the Yishuv were not entirely comfortable with the notion of placing its future in the hands of Weizmann and the Zionist Commission , which did not actually represent the Jews of Palestine except insofar as they were ...
Outwardly their attitude was justified by reference to the Status Quo — to the duty of a Military Administration to confine itself to " care and maintenance " and to avoid anticipating any future political settlement .
14 The implication of this was that for the immediate future , no further agricultural immigration should be permitted . However , at some indeterminate point in the future a maximum of ...
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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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