When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks

When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice

The state of Israel is often spoken of as a haven for the Jewish people, a place rooted in the story of a nation dispersed, wandering the earth in search of their homeland. Born in adversity but purportedly nurtured by liberal ideals, Israel has never known peace, experiencing instead a state of constant war that has divided its population along the stark and seemingly unbreachable lines of dissent around the relationship between unrestricted citizenship and Jewish identity.
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By focusing on the perceptions and histories of Israelâ€™s most marginalized stakeholdersâ€”Palestinian Israelis, Arab Jews, and non-Israeli Jewsâ€”Atalia Omer cuts to the heart of the Israeli-Arab conflict, demonstrating how these voices provide urgently needed resources for conflict analysis and peacebuilding. Navigating a complex set of arguments about ethnicity, boundaries, and peace, and offering a different approach to the renegotiation and reimagination of national identity and citizenship, Omer pushes the conversation beyond the bounds of the single narrative and toward a new and dynamic concept of justiceâ€”one that offers the prospect of building a lasting peace.
Country USA
Brand University of Chicago Press
Manufacturer University of Chicago Press
Binding Paperback
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ReleaseDate 2013-06-07
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EANs 9780226008103

When Peace Is Not Enough: How the Israeli Peace Camp Thinks about Religion, Nationalism, and Justice