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<p>This finely etched, on-site work examines the relationships between the changing political system and political culture in Israel, with particular focus on the decade of the 1980s. Written by a scholar equally at home in the United States and in Israel, and intellectually equally at home in political science and anthropology, <i>Israeli Visions and Divisions</i> is a fundamental contribution to a literature long on passion and short on reason, which perhaps is an academic reflection of social life in this deeply troubled land.</p> <p>Aronoff starts from the belief that the basic conflicting and even contradictory interpretations over what should be the exact character of Israel as a Jewish state continues to be the source of the most serious division among Jews within contemporary Israel. As a consequence, consensus politics yields to coalition politics; and prospects for a future consensus are dim. Conflict among Jewish political and religious groups, and between Jews and Arabs, is aggravated by the uses of Zionist symbolism in a fragmented political culture.</p> <p>This is a serious critique made from a sympathetic quarter. Aronoff suggests that the Israeli political system is

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Author

Myron Joel Aronoff

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781351309868

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Political Science, Science, Sociology