Imperial Israel and the Palestinians - The Politics of Expansion

Informationen zum Autor Nur Masalha is Palestinian Historian and Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary's University. He is the author of many books on Palestine-Israel, including The Palestine Nakba (Zed, 2014), The Politics of Denial (Pluto Press, 2003) and Imperial Israel and the Palestinians (Pluto Press, 2000). Klappentext This book is a history of Israel's expansionist policies, focusing on the period from the June War of 1967 to the present day. He demonstrates that imperialist tendencies in Israel run the political gamut, from Left to Right.Masalha argues that the heart of the conflict between Zionist immigrants/settlers and the native Palestinians has always been about land, territory, demography and water. He documents how Israeli policy has made it a priority to expel the Palestinians, either by war or peaceful measures. But these imperialist tendencies are not restricted to extremist zealots. The author uncovers the expansionist policies found in Labour Zionism and Kookist ideology.Chapters cover the Whole Land of Israel Movement, Zionist Revisionism and the Likud Party, Gush Emunim and the religious fundamentalists, parties and movements of the far right and the evolution of Israeli Jewish public attitudes since 1967. Zusammenfassung A critical history of Israel's expansionist politics that reveals how imperialist tendencies run the gamut from Left to Right New territorial maximalism and the imperial project; Zionist revisionism and greater Israel; Jewish fundamentalism, the Palestinians and greater Israel; the secular far Right and the greater Israel; the public opinion debate and greater Israel.

Product details

• Authors: Nur Masalha
• Publisher: University Of Michigan Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2000
• EAN: 9780745316154
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-1615-4
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 210 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Genocide & War Crimes, HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine, International Relations, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism, War Crimes, Palestine, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism