Herzl's Nightmare: One Land, Two Peoples

by Peter Rodgers

Overview

Theodor Herzl's dream of a national homeland for the Jewish people was realized when Israel declared its independence in 1948. Yet it was made possible through the deaths of millions of European Jews and at the expense of Palestinian society -- a people who would never forget what they saw as a grave injustice. Herzl's dream would prove illusory. This important new study from the former Australian ambassador to Israel shows how little the dynamics of the conflict have actually changed; how eerily reminiscent today's antagonisms and falsehoods are of yesteryear's; and how much today's self-righteous intransigence -- on both sides -- owes to what went before.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786739271
Publisher:	PublicAffairs
Publication date:	04/27/2009
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	261 KB

About the Author

Peter Rodgers is a former Australian ambassador to Israel and is now a consultant on foreign affairs, defence and trade. His commentary on Middle Eastern affairs appears regularly in the national press. He is the winner of the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his reporting on East Timor.

Table of Contents

	Introduction: One hundred years of living painfully	1
Chapter 1	Herzl's 'new' Jew versus the 'semi-savage' native	5
Chapter 2	Zionism triumphant	17
Chapter 3	This land is my land; your land is my land	29
Chapter 4	Blood ... talk ... blood	53
Chapter 5	Whither the Zionist enterprise?	79
Chapter 6	Palestinian fantasies	99
Chapter 7	Apocalypse soon?	113
	Postscript: A world without Arafat: When will the dreaming end?	123
	Notes	131
	Selected Reading	135
	Index	137