Who's Left in Israel: Radical Political Alternatives for the Future of Israel [Paperback]

Dan Leon (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1903900573 | ISBN-13: 978-1903900574 | Publication Date: April 2004

Asks pertinent questions without shying away from difficult answers. Some of Israel's leading thinkers and experts from Israeli academia, journalism and public life investigate the pressing issues that face the modern State of Israel. The radical political perspectives and alternatives presented in this book challenge long-held ideas about how Israel should conduct itself as a political entity, drawing on both past and present political discussion in Israel. Ultimately, the contributors arrive at a highly original and controversial portrayal of Israeli society, and present a blueprint for a radical new path for Israeli politics.

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Dan Leon, a writer and editor who lives in Jerusalem, is a former senior editor of the New Outlook and co-managing editor of the Palestine-Israel Journal. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Pr (April 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1903900573
• ISBN-13: 978-1903900574
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,852,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A basic hate text, August 26, 2005

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Seth J. Frantzman (Jerusalem, Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Who's Left in Israel: Radical Political Alternatives for the Future of Israel (Paperback)

This book gives the perspectives of leading `left' writers in Israel and abroad. These are mostly `Israelis' who have left Israel like Avi Shalim or Baruch Kimmerling or people such as Ilan Pappe, historians and critics who all argue that Israels history is full of genocidal intentions and that Israel shouldn't exist and that Jews should return `home' to Europe. Each one of these articles is full of hate speech. The conclusions are always standard fare, Israel is unabashedly evil, everything Israel has ever done is evil and conspiratorial. Israel is one of the `greatest threats to world peace'. Israel is one of the `most brutal states in world history'. Israel is constantly compared to the Nazi regime. This book is a good example, a wonderful symbol of what the left is capable of when left to its own hateful intentions for this book argues that Jews deserve to be `cleansed' from Israel to make way for `greater palestine' of Israel, the west bank, gaza and Jordan. Most of these authors claim to be Israeli but more than half left Israel long ago either for higher pay or to be among their intellectual hate-israel allies in the west.

This book chronicles the left. It chronicles the basic title `whose left in Israel' and the question itself is full of hate speech for it implies that those who are not leftist and don't agree with the opinions here don't deserve to exist and in fact according to these internationalists they don't even exist in Israel. The idea is that anyone that doesn't agree isn't `left' in Israel to be spoken to or understood. Basically the message is no one is left in Israel and therefore Israel should be destroyed. Those in this book call terrorists `freedom fighters' and when buses full of children are blown up in Jerusalem these authors say that is `collateral damage' for the `ultimate freedom of the Palestinian struggle'.

This is a basic hate text, like Mien Kamp and Protocols of the elders of zion, full leftist hate fiction. In this book we see how the radical left is indeed the same thing as the radical right and a neo-nazi would find the ideology in this book the exact same as his own.

Seth J. Frantzman