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.

A propos de l'auteur

Saul Friedländer is an award-winning Israeli-American historian and professor of history (emeritus) at UCLA. He was born in Prague to a family of German-speaking Jews, grew up in France, and lived in hiding during the Nazi occupation of 1940–44. He left for Israel in 1948. A recipient of the Israel Prize, the country’s highest cultural honour, he is the author of the standard two-volume history of the Holocaust, Years of Persecution and Years of Extermination, which won a Pulitzer in 2008. His recent books include Proustian Uncertainties and a memoir, Where Memory Leads. He lives in California.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Saul Friedlander, Saul Friedländer
• Edition: Verso
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 11.06.2024
• EAN: 9781804296783
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-678-3
• Pages: 304
• Dimensions: 145 mm x 220 mm x 20 mm
• Catégories: Ecole et pédagogie > Préparation de l'enseignement > Formation professionnelle; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; 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