Mythologies Without End (1st Edition)
The US, Israel, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1917-2020
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Narrated by:
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Christopher Grove
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Jerome Slater
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The history of modern Israel is a fiercely contested subject. From the Balfour declaration to the Six-Day War to the recent assault on Gaza, ideologically-charged narratives and counter-narratives battle for dominance not just in Israel itself, but throughout the world. In the United States and Israel, the Israeli cause is treated as the more righteous one, albeit with important qualifiers and caveats.
In Mythologies Without End, Jerome Slater argues that US policies in the region are largely a product of mythologies that are often flatly wrong. For example, the Israelis' treatment of Palestinians after 1948 undermined its claim that it was a true democracy, and the argument that Arab states refused to negotiate with Israel for decades is simply untrue. Because of widespread acceptance of these myths in both the US and Israel, the consequences have been devastating to all of the involved parties. In fact, the actual history is very nearly the converse of the mythology: it is Israel and the US that have repeatedly lost, discarded, or even deliberately sabotaged many opportunities to reach fair compromise settlements of the Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts. As Slater reexamines the history of the conflict, he argues that a refutation of these mythologies is a necessary first step toward solving the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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- Michael Australian Person
- 18-11-2024
liberal Zionist myths to replace old ones
Slater does a good job exposing a bunch of classic Israeli and Zionist myths and synthesising the findings of new Israeli historians. however his moral and political judgements are questionable and even offensive, such as his prolonged discussion of the possible case for different types of transfer of Palestinians, followed by his flat rejection of any Palestinian refugees returning to their homes, and his proposals for greater Palestinian surrender, accepting less than a Palestinian state and maybe if they give up resistance too Israel will give them a state.
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