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The Myths of Zionism »

Authors: John Rose
ISBN-13: 9780745320557, ISBN-10: 0745320554
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Pluto Press
Date Published: October 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

John Rose teaches Sociology at Southwark College and London Metropolitan University.

Analyses the myths -- religious and cultural -- that are used to justify the aggressive expansionist policies of Israel.

1	The Bible is our mandate'	7
2	'The distinguishing characteristic of the Jews has been their exile'	26
3	'... Eighteen centuries of Jewish suffering'	43
4	'Us' Jews, 'them' Arabs I : a message from a Cairo Synagogue, a thousand years ago	63
5	'A land without people ...'	80
6	'... for a people without land'	98
7	Plucky little Israel or great power protege? : I : Britain and the Zionist colony in Palestine	117
8	'The Nazi Holocaust proved the urgency for a Jewish state'	135
9	Plucky little Israel or great power protege? : II : how Israel became the strategic asset for the United States	154
10	'Us' Jews, 'them' Arabs II : the lost Jewish-Arab symbiosis - in search of the 'spark of hope in the past'	174
	Conclusion : out of the ashes	201