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Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil

Diary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil

Friedländer, Saul

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralGeneral Political ScienceIsrael & Palestine History

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 1804296783
ISBN13: 9781804296783
Publisher: Verso
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust

Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedländer 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 Friedländer, 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.

Friedländer 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 Friedländer, 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.

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