The crisis of Zionism / Peter Beinart.

Author/creator Beinart, Peter
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Description289 pages : map ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents The crisis in Israel -- The crisis in America -- Should American Jews criticize Israel? -- Is the occupation Israel's fault? -- The Jewish president -- The illiberal Zionist -- The clash -- The humbling -- The future.
Abstract Peter Beinart lays out in chilling detail the looming danger to Israeli democracy and the American Jewish establishment's refusal to confront it. And he offers a fascinating, groundbreaking portrait of the two leaders at the center of the crisis: Barack Obama, America's first "Jewish president," a man steeped in the liberalism he learned from his many Jewish friends and mentors in Chicago; and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who considers liberalism the Jewish people's special curse. These two men embody fundamentally different visions not just of American and Israeli national interests but of the mission of the Jewish people itself.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [197]-269) and index.
LCCN 2011042021
ISBN9780805094121
ISBN0805094121

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks DS149.5 .U6 B45 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold