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Has the Zionist era ended? Yosef Mazor takes that question seriously enough to lay out the full range of answers Israelis give to it.
The book traces the roots of the Arab question back through Jewish history in the Land of Israel and follows the attempts — practical, political, and ideological — made to resolve it across generations. Against that history, Mazor examines post-Zionism: the argument that Zionism has completed its work and that Israel should now understand itself in other terms, and the counter-arguments from those who reject that reading entirely.
Rather than arguing a single line, Mazor sets out the competing positions as their own advocates make them, drawing on the historical processes that shaped the Jewish return to the land. Readers are left to weigh the evidence and reach their own conclusions about what, if anything, a solution might look like.
A wide-ranging survey of one of the central debates in Israeli public life, written for the general reader.