Israel In Palestine

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FEW BOOKS are both morally inspiring and intellectually stimulating. This book is both. Professor Yakov M. Rabkin, a noted historian at the University of Montreal, has courageously made his arguments cogent and persuasive. He explains in well-documented detail how Zionism arose, how it usurped the religious idea of a Jewish return to Palestine, and how it created a nationalist parody and cruel negation of Jewish values in the state of Israel.

Judaism is known for its devotion to scholarly examination of ethical issues and the pursuit of justice. Zionism is not its offspring. The idea of gathering the world’s Jews in their mythical homeland was advanced by evangelical Christians centuries before it was taken up by secular Jews. Both religious Jews and the most distinguished Jewish men of science long opposed the idea of a Jewish state, especially one in the Holy Land, migration to which, according to Jewish tradition, should await the arrival of the Messiah.

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