Tikva Honig-Parnass
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“The Zionist Left lacked compassion when referring to the Nakba. Even its most humanist figures often expressed justification for the 1948 ethnic cleansing in a laconic, offhand manner, claiming it was a necessary and inevitable response to the existential danger that the Yishuv was confronted with.”
― The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
― The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
“Very few Zionist Left intellectuals see Israel as a colonial settler state. They do not attribute its “internal” regime, laws, and political culture to this central characteristic of state and society (not to mention Israel’s Apartheid nature). The majority refuses to see the Zionist movement as an ongoing colonial project.”
― The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
― The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
“It would be the Zionist Left who led the Jewish army in the 1948 war and, after committing the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, established the state of Israel. Their governance lasted until 1977 when the Labor Party lost its governmental monopoly to the right-wing Herut Party—later the Likud—headed by Menachem Begin.31 Though”
― The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
― The False Prophets of Peace: Liberal Zionism and the Struggle for Palestine
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