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Uri Ben-Eliezer
University of California Press

War Over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel's Militaristic Nationalism

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AuthorUri Ben-Eliezer
PublisherUniversity of California Press
PublishedMay 09 2019
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780520304345
Dimensions9.1 X 6.3 X 1.2 inches
Weight 1.35 pounds
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CategoriesHistory > Middle East - Israel & Palestine
LanguageEnglish

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Violence and war have raged between Zionists and Palestinians for over a century, ever since Zionists, trying to establish a nation-state in Palestine, were forced to confront the fact that the country was already populated. Covering every conflict in Israel's history, War over Peace reveals that Israeli nationalism was born ethnic and militaristic and has embraced these characteristics to this day. In his sweeping and original synthesis, Uri Ben-Eliezer shows that this militaristic nationalism systematically drives Israel to find military solutions for its national problems, based on the idea that the homeland is sacred and the territory is indivisible. When Israelis opposed to this ideology brought about change during a period that led to the Oslo Accords in the 1990s, cultural and political forces, reinforced by religious and messianic elements, prevented the implementation of the agreements, which brought violence back in the form of new wars. War over Peace is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the role of ethnic nationalism and militarism in Israel as well as throughout the world.

Author Bio

URI BEN-ELIEZER is a political sociologist and chair of the department of sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

His research interests include Israeli democracy, civil society, social movements, state-society relations, army-society relations, and peace and war. He has published numerous articles in such journals as Comparative Politics, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Comparative Political Studies, Theory and Society, Political Geography, Social Politics, Social Movement Studies, and Ethnic and Racial Studies.

Ben-Eliezer is also the author of three books in English: The Making of Israeli Militarism (Indiana UP, 1998); Old Conflict, New War: Israel’s Politics Toward the Palestinians (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012); and War over Peace: One Hundred Years of Israel’s Militaristic Nationalism (University of California Press, 2019).

Source: The Havens Wright Center for Social Justice University of Wisconsin-Madison

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