Diary of a Crisis - Israel in Turmoil

Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedlaender began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests against Netanyahu's attempt to overhaul the judiciary. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against this threat to democracy. But the protests said nothing about the Palestinian question-the "elephant in the room," according to Friedlaender, who resumed his diary after Hamas's 7 October assault on southern Israel. Israel was facing one of the worst crises in its history, he observes, under the worst possible internal conditions.Friedlaender weaves together profound reflections on a national history in which he has been an active participant. He describes how Prime Minister Golda Meir once flatly declared to him, "There is no Palestinian people." For Friedlaender, on the other hand, the fight for democracy is inseparable from equality of treatment for Arab and Jewish citizens and an end to Israeli domination over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. He argues that despite the continuing bloodshed, a two-state solution remains the only long-term answer to this most intractable of conflicts.

Product details

• Authors: Saul Friedlander, Saul Friedländer
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2024
• EAN: 9781804296783
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-678-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Jewish, 20th Century, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, International Relations, 21st Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Middle Eastern history, Palestine