68. The Two-State Solution: A Way Out of the Impasse

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword v
3. Table of Content vii
4. General Introduction 1
5. Part A: Cleavages
6. Topic I: Israel – West, East, or Global?
7. Introduction 19
8. 1. Israeli Culture Today: How Jewish? How Israeli? 22
9. 2. To What Degree Is Israeli Culture Jewish, and to What Degree Israeli? 39
10. 3. Hebrew Culture in Israel: Between Europe, the Middle East, and America 60
11. 4. Israeli Culture(s) Today: Globalized Archipelago of Isolated Communities 76
12. 5. Bauhaus Architecture in Israel: De-Constructing a Modernist Vernacular and the Myth of Tel Aviv’s “White City” 87
13. 6. Yam Tikhoniut: Mediterraneanism as a Model for Identity Formation in between 102
14. Topic II: A Theocracy?
15. Introduction 119
16. 7. Religion and State, One and the Same 122
17. 8. The Haredi-Secular Debate and the Shas Approach 131
18. 9. The Secular State in Rabbinic Thought 146
19. 10. Religion and State in Israel 166
20. 11. The Non-Separation of Religion and State in Israel: Does It Support the Racism and Nationalism Wave? 181
21. Topic III: One People? One Nation?
22. Introduction 199
23. 12. Russian-Speaking Israelis in the Ethno-Social Tapestry of Israel 201
24. 13. Immigration and Conflict in a Deeply Divided Society: The Encounter between Russian Immigrants and the Indigenous Palestinian Minority in Israel 217
25. 14. “About Miracles”: The Flourishing of the “Torah World” of Yeshivot and Kollelim in Israel 232
26. 15. The Divided People Revisited 245
27. Topic IV: Ethnic (In)Equality
28. Introduction 263
29. 16. Inequality in Israel: In the End, Israel Produced Its Own 1% 265
30. 17. What Has Become of the Ethnic Devil? Reflections on the Current State of Israeli Ethnicity 281
31. 18. On the Cultural Distinction between East and West among Israeli Jews 304
32. 19. We and the Others: Majority Attitudes toward Non-Jews in Israel 324
33. Topic V: Social (In)Justice
34. Introduction 347
35. 20. Social Justice in Israel: Shifting Paradigm 349
36. 21. Israel’s Socioeconomic Debate: A New Perspective 364
37. 22. A Short Economic History of Israel 378
38. 23. The Myth of Ethnic Inequality in Israel 389
39. Topic VI: Feminism
40. Introduction 407
41. 24. Debates within Israeli Feminism 409
42. 25. Navigating Gender Inequality in Israel: The Challenges of Feminism 423
43. 26. The Schizophrenic Reality of Israeli Women: A Cinematic Perspective, 2014 437
44. 27. Gender Policy in Family and Society among Palestinian Citizens of Israel: Outside and Inside Influences 453
45. Topic VII: Discontinuities
46. Introduction 477
47. 28. “Ladies and Gentlemen, Mahapach”: The 1977 Realignment from a Political Historical Perspective 479
48. 29. The Likud as a Dominant Party and Israel’s Post-1977 Infrastructure 489
49. 30. The 1977 Changeover: The Emergence of a New Discourse among Palestinians in Israel 505
50. 31. The 1977 Paradox: Immediate Crises and Long- Range Economic and Political Restructuring Outcomes of the Changeover 523
51. 32. Dialectics of Change through Continuity: The 1977 Political Upheaval Revisited 540
52. Part B: The Challenge of Post-Zionism
53. Topic VIII: Militarism?
54. Introduction 559
55. 33. Israel: A Militaristic Society? 561
56. 34. Are Israel’s Media Critical of the IDF and the Security Culture? 573
57. 35. Militarism and Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A New Approach 590
58. 36. Patterns of Militarism in Israel 609
59. Topic IX: A Democracy?
60. Introduction 639
61. 37. “Ethnocracy”: The Politics of Judaizing Israel/ Palestine 643
62. 38. Israeli Democracy: Civic and Ethnonational Components 672
63. 39. What Kind of Democracy Is Israel? 691
64. 40. From Liberal Democracy to Ethnocracy: Different Conceptions of Israel’s Democracy 705
65. 41. Israel’s Vision: Jewish and Democratic 741
66. 42. Is Israel a Democracy? 758
67. Topic X: Debating Post-Zionism
68. Introduction 777
69. 43. Understanding the Divide: Arabs and Jews in Israel 779
70. 44. Is Israel a Colonial State? 794
71. 45. Is There Still a Future for Settlements in Zionist Ideology? 809
72. 46. The Colonialism/Colonization Perspective on Zionism/Israel 823
73. 47. What Do Those Who Claim Zionism Is Colonialism Overlook? 848
74. 48. Post-Zionism and Its Moral and Political Ramifications 873
75. 49. The Debate over the “New Historians” in Israel 888
76. Topic XI: Criticism of Israel – A Kind of Antisemitism?
77. Introduction 911
78. 50. Post-Zionists and Anti-Zionists: The “Otherjews’” Hour 914
79. 51. Parallel Lines: Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism in the 21st Century 924
80. 52. Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment 944
81. 53. Europe, Israel, the Jewish Communities, and Growing Antisemitism 966
82. 54. Criticism of Israel: A New Antisemitism? 982
83. Part C: Israel Outward
84. Topic XII: Israel-Diaspora
85. Introduction 995
86. 55. The Changing Status of Zionism and Israel in Latin American Jewry 998
87. 56. Ethnicity and State Policy: Israel in the Discourse of the Jewish Press in the USA during the Past Generation 1028
88. 57. The French State, the Vertical Alliance, and the State of Israel 1046
89. 58. French Jewry and the Israelization of Judaism 1058
90. 59. Israel and the Diaspora: Convergent and Divergent Markers 1080
91. 60. Israel-Diaspora Relations: “Transmission Belts” of Transnationalism 1102
92. 61. Negation of the Diaspora from an Israeli Perspective: The Case of A. B. Yehoshua 1116
93. Topic XIII: The Conflict
94. Introduction 1131
95. 62. “They help to weave the veil”: Edgar Salin and the Israel Economic and Sociological Research Project 1134
96. 63. A Perspective on the Prospects of Settling the Zionist-Palestinian Conflict 1161
97. 64. Accords or Peace between Israel and the Palestinians 1176
98. 65. The Binational Dilemma 1190
99. 66. Why Is It So Difficult to Resolve the Israeli- Palestinian Conflict by Israeli Jews? A Socio- Psychological Approach 1211
100. 67. Perspectives of Israeli-Palestinian Peace, 1917–2015 1240
101. 68. The Two-State Solution: A Way Out of the Impasse 1260
102. List of Contributors 1275
103. Glossary 1281
104. Index of Persons 1285
105. Index of Subjects 1293