Beyond the Two States Solution: A Jewish Political Essay<\/a><\/h3>\n![\"beyond-the-two-state-solution-a-jewish-political-essay\"](\"http:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/yshenhav\/files\/2013\/05\/beyond-the-two-state-solution-a-jewish-political-essay-200x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nYehouda Shenhav, London: Polity Press, p. 256. ISBN 978-0745660295.<\/strong>
\n<\/em><\/p>\nFor over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line – that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that defined Israel\u2019s borders until 1967, before Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza following the Six-Day War. By going back to Israel\u2019s pre-1967 borders, many people hope to restore Israel to what they imagine was its pristine, pre-occupation character and to provide a solid basis for a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n
In this original and controversial essay, Yehouda Shenhav argues that this vision is an illusion that ignores historical realities and offers no long-term solution. It fails to see that the real problem is that a state was created in most of Palestine in 1948 in which Jews are the privileged ethnic group, at the expense of the Palestinians – who also must live under a constant state of emergency. The issue will not be resolved by the two-state solution, which will do little for the millions of Palestinian refugees and will also require the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Jews living across the Green Line. All these obstacles require a bolder rethinking of the issues: the Green Line should be abandoned and a new type of polity created on the complete territory of mandatory Palestine, with a new set of constitutional arrangements that address the rights of both Palestinians and Jews, including the settlers.<\/p>\n
\n- For a book review by\u00a0Mazal Mualem<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Al-Monitor<\/strong>, click\u00a0here<\/a><\/li>\n
- For a book review by\u00a0Alex Kane<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0Mondoweiss<\/strong>, click\u00a0here<\/a><\/li>\n
- For a book review by <\/span>Nathan Thrall<\/em> in <\/span>the New York Review of Books<\/em><\/strong>, click <\/span>here<\/a><\/li>\n
- For a book review by Haim Ganz <\/em>in Haaretz<\/em><\/strong>, click here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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2006<\/em><\/p>\nThe Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity<\/a><\/h3>\n![\"arabjews\"](\"http:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/yshenhav\/files\/2013\/05\/arabjews-195x300.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nYehouda Shenhav, Stanford University Press, p. 280. ISBN 0-8047-5296-6.<\/em><\/h3>\n\u00a0This book is about the social history of the Arab Jews\u2014Jews living in Arab countries\u2014against the backdrop of Zionist nationalism. By using the term “Arab Jews” (rather than “Mizrahim,” which literally means “Orientals”) the book challenges the binary opposition between Arabs<\/i> and Jews<\/i> in Zionist discourse, a dichotomy that renders the linking of Arabs and Jews in this way inconceivable. It also situates the study of the relationships between Mizrahi Jews<\/i> and Ashkenazi Jews<\/i> in the context of early colonial encounters between the Arab Jews and the European Zionist emissaries\u2014prior to the establishment of the state of Israel and outside Palestine. It argues that these relationships were reproduced upon the arrival of the Arab Jews to Israel. The book also provides a new prism for understanding the intricate relationships between the Arab Jews and the Palestinian refugees of 1948, a link that is usually obscured or omitted by studies that are informed by Zionist historiography. Finally, the book uses the history of the Arab Jews to transcend the assumptions necessitated by the Zionist perspective, and to open the door for a perspective that sheds new light on the basic assumptions upon which Zionism was founded.<\/p>\n\n- For a book review in Japanese<\/em>, click\u00a0here<\/a><\/li>\n
- For a book review by\u00a0Zvi Ben-Dor Benite<\/em> in Israel Studies Forum<\/strong> (ISF), <\/em>a publication of the Association for Israel, vol. 22, no. 2. (Winter 2007), pp. 115-120., click here<\/a><\/li>\n
- For a book review by\u00a0Yitzhak Dahan<\/em> in Azure<\/em><\/strong>, no. 19 (Winter 2005), click here<\/a><\/li>\n
- The Political Implications of Arab-Jewish Identity<\/a>\u00a0>\u00a0A recorded Lecture given for the\u00a0EUME<\/a>\u00a0(Europe in the Middle East\u2014The Middle East in Europe)\u00a0workshop.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
\u00a01999<\/em><\/p>\nManufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nYehouda Shenhav, London: Polity Press, p. 256. ISBN 978-0745660295.<\/strong> For over two decades, many liberals in Israel have attempted, with wide international support, to implement the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine, partitioned on the basis of the Green Line – that is, the line drawn by the 1949 Armistice Agreements that defined Israel\u2019s borders until 1967, before Israel occupied the West Bank and Gaza following the Six-Day War. By going back to Israel\u2019s pre-1967 borders, many people hope to restore Israel to what they imagine was its pristine, pre-occupation character and to provide a solid basis for a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.<\/p>\n In this original and controversial essay, Yehouda Shenhav argues that this vision is an illusion that ignores historical realities and offers no long-term solution. It fails to see that the real problem is that a state was created in most of Palestine in 1948 in which Jews are the privileged ethnic group, at the expense of the Palestinians – who also must live under a constant state of emergency. The issue will not be resolved by the two-state solution, which will do little for the millions of Palestinian refugees and will also require the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Jews living across the Green Line. All these obstacles require a bolder rethinking of the issues: the Green Line should be abandoned and a new type of polity created on the complete territory of mandatory Palestine, with a new set of constitutional arrangements that address the rights of both Palestinians and Jews, including the settlers.<\/p>\n ***<\/p>\n 2006<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0This book is about the social history of the Arab Jews\u2014Jews living in Arab countries\u2014against the backdrop of Zionist nationalism. By using the term “Arab Jews” (rather than “Mizrahim,” which literally means “Orientals”) the book challenges the binary opposition between Arabs<\/i> and Jews<\/i> in Zionist discourse, a dichotomy that renders the linking of Arabs and Jews in this way inconceivable. It also situates the study of the relationships between Mizrahi Jews<\/i> and Ashkenazi Jews<\/i> in the context of early colonial encounters between the Arab Jews and the European Zionist emissaries\u2014prior to the establishment of the state of Israel and outside Palestine. It argues that these relationships were reproduced upon the arrival of the Arab Jews to Israel. The book also provides a new prism for understanding the intricate relationships between the Arab Jews and the Palestinian refugees of 1948, a link that is usually obscured or omitted by studies that are informed by Zionist historiography. Finally, the book uses the history of the Arab Jews to transcend the assumptions necessitated by the Zionist perspective, and to open the door for a perspective that sheds new light on the basic assumptions upon which Zionism was founded.<\/p>\n \u00a01999<\/em><\/p>\n
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The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Manufacturing Rationality: The Engineering Foundations of the Managerial Revolution<\/a><\/h3>\n
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