The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making of the Jewish State <<--00-->>
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The Founding Myths of Israel: Nationalism, Socialism, and the Making
of the Jewish State Zeev Sternhell David Maisel (Translator)
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Format: Paperback, 464pp.
ISBN: 0691009678
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pub. Date: August 1999
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Sternhell's objective is to take a complete inventory of [two forces shaping Israeli identity]: nationalism and socialism. This wide-ranging ambition, borne of a historian's true inspiration, rests on impressive documentation. —Princeton University Press
<The Jews have their own brand of National Socialism and don't any of you
believe for a second they don't want to spread it worldwide. In the United States
alone one can see that every Jew in Congress is a leftist oriented politician.
Representative Bernard Sanders, a Jew, is the head of the Democratic Socialists
in our American Congress! I will show more about Bernie Sanders at the bottom
of this post. Doc Tavish comment 9/17/99>
Sternhell''s objective is to take a complete inventory of [two forces shaping Israeli identity]: nationalism and socialism. This wide-ranging ambition, borne of a historian''s true inspiration, rests on impressive documentation. —Fran?s Furet
From The Publisher:
The well-known historian and political scientist Zeev Sternhell here advances a radically new interpretation of the founding of modern Israel. The founders claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimation of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society.
Sternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed. Sternhell explains how the avowedly socialist leaders of the dominant labor party, Mapai, especially David Ben-Gurion and Berl Katznelson, never really believed in the prospects of realizing the "dream" of a new society, even though many of their working-class supporters were self-identified socialists. The founders of the state understood, from the very beginning, that not only socialism but also other universalistic ideologies like liberalism were incompatible with cultural, historical, and territorial nationalism.
Because nationalism took precedence over universal values, argues Sternhell, Israel has not evolved a constitution or a Bill of Rights, has not moved to separate state and religion, has failed to develop a liberal concept of citizenship, and, until the Oslo accords of 1993, did not recognize the rights of the Palestinians to independence. This is a controversial and timely book, which not only provides useful historical background to Israel's ongoing struggle to mobilize its citizenry to support a shared vision of nationhood, but also raises a question of general significance: is a national movement whose aim is a political and cultural revolution capable of coexisting with the universal values of secularism, individualism, and social justice?
From Princeton University Press:
Sternhell's objective is to take a complete inventory of [two forces shaping Israeli identity]: nationalism and socialism. This wide-ranging ambition, borne of a historian's true inspiration, rests on impressive documentation.
From Robert S. Wistrich - Princeton University Press:
[Sternhell''s] work has an analytical intensity, a solidity and erudition generally lacking among the so-called `new [post-Zionist] historians.'' Not for Sternhell the ethical relativism of the postmodernists. His values are clearly those of the old Left.... This is the yardstick from which he judges the Israeli labour movement, and he finds it deeply flawed.
From Jerome Slater - Princeton University Press:
Sternhell''s conclusions on Israel''s expansionism after 1967 are important and powerful.... The demythologizing work of Sternhell and his fellow `new historians'' is, finally, profoundly constructive--as they clearly intended it to be.
From Fran?s Furet - Princeton University Press:
Sternhell''s objective is to take a complete inventory of [two forces shaping Israeli identity]: nationalism and socialism. This wide-ranging ambition, borne of a historian''s true inspiration, rests on impressive documentation.
From Alain-Gcrard Slama - Princeton University Press:
Some of his interpretations may occasionally be questioned, but one cannot doubt the intellectual courage and erudition of this professor of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his strong secularism and his devotion to the heritage of the Enlightenment make him both the leader of a school and an outstanding figure.
From Nicholas Weill - Princeton University Press:
Zeev Sternhell . . . has observed as a historian the reality behind the myth that had assured the power of the Labor Movement for nearly forty years, until the arrival of Menahem Begin and the Likud in 1977. First surprise: the stereotype of the soldier-peasant, which one associates with the Jewish society of Palestine before 1948, masked a principle far-removed from the bucolic reveries of the ''founding fathers''. . . . Had Sternhell simply shown how the socialist leaders--under the crushing weight of constraining realities--amended their program and sacrificed their egalitarian ideology on the altar of pragmatism, he would not have produced an original book. The interest of this work, however, comes from Sternhell''s demonstration that the primacy given to national objectives indeed proceeded from an ideological choice.
From Yosef Agassi - Princeton University Press:
Not every day does one come across a history book of such great contemporary significance as that of Zeev Sternhell. . . . This is a very important book, which raises historical questions of an ever-fresh political significance.
From Menachem Brinker - Princeton University Press:
This book will undoubtedly create discussion and debate for some time. An excellent companion to Simha Flapan''s The Birth of Israel (LJ 8/87) and worthy reading for anyone interested in comparative political development.
From Publisher's Weekly - Publishers Weekly:
Every national history has its myths. In this political/intellectual history, Sternhell, a professor of political science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, targets the Israeli myths that its founders were socialists committed to building a just society. The author argues that leftist Zionist intellectuals and political leaders in the first half of the centuryicons such as Israel's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, as well as lesser-known figuressubsumed whatever socialist principles they had to the goal of creating a Jewish state.
"Socialism was never an aim in itself but a tool for the advancement of national objectives, an incomparably effective mobilizing force," he writes. Those who are familiar with, and believers in, standard Zionist history will feel challengedwhile those who are less familiar will probably be a bit lost given the lack of a larger context. Sternhell's (Neither Right nor Left) method of comparing early labor Zionist leaders with their European counterparts comes across as a matter of opinion and an unfair comparison: the Zionists worked, after all, in a vastly different historical context. One also wishes that more attention was paid to the links between early Zionist thought and the extreme nationalism of the post-1967 era. If this book is any indication, the battle over the history of Zionism is far from finished. (Jan.)
From The Reader's Catalog:
The founders of Israel claimed that they intended to create both a landed state for the Jewish people and a socialist society. However, according to Sternhell, socialism served the leaders of the influential labor movement more as a rhetorical resource for the legitimization of the national project of establishing a Jewish state than as a blueprint for a just society. Sternhell demonstrates how socialist principles were consistently subverted in practice by the nationalist goals to which socialist Zionism was committed.
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KEYWORDS: "The 1990s will go down as the decade in which socialism was rejected all over the world--except in Vermont. At least in House elections: for Vermont has three times now elected Bernie Sanders, self-proclaimed Socialist, to Congress. Sanders is not just a Socialist, but also very much a modern Vermonter: the son of a Flatbush paint salesman, he came here as part of the hippie invasion of 1968."
http://www.house.gov/bernie/biography/cqbio.htm
(Link active 6/14/98)
Rep. Bernard Sanders (I)
Elected 1990; b. Sept. 8, 1941, New York, NY; home, Burlington; U. of Chicago, B.A. 1964; Jewish; married (Jane).
Career: Writer; Dir., Amer. People's History Soc.; Burlington Mayor, 1981-89; Lecturer, Harvard, 1989; Prof., Hamilton Col., 1989-90.
DC Office: 213 Cannon House Office Building, Washington DC 20515,
202-225-4115;
Fax: 202-225-6790;
e-mail: bsan...@together.net
District Offices: 1 Church St., Burlington 05401, 802-862-0697.
Committees: Banking & Financial Services (1st of 1 I): Domestic and International Monetary Policy; Housing and Community Opportunity. Government Reform & Oversight (1st of 1 I): Civil Service; Human Resources and Intergovernmental Affairs.
The 1990s will go down as the decade in which socialism was rejected all over the world--except in Vermont. At least in House elections: for Vermont has three times now elected Bernie Sanders, self-proclaimed Socialist, to Congress. Sanders is not just a Socialist..... Sanders became only the third Socialist elected to the House, after Victor Berger of Milwaukee (1911-13, 1923-29) and Meyer London of Manhattan's Lower East Side (1915-23).
In the House Sanders has actually functioned as a liberal Democrat, with committee slots and seniority, plus plenteous contributions, up through 1994, from PACs. He voted against the Gulf war resolution... generally had one of the most liberal voting records in the House--including active opposition to the Contract With America. He moved without success to require on-budget, cash payoff of S&L and possible bank bailouts, to be funded by progressive taxes: Vermont thrift and Fabian socialism, all in
one breath.
[...]
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Readers are invited to examine the original post that links Bernie Sanders to the Democratic Socialists of America.
http://x7.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=347321104&fmt=text
Subject: American Congress Has "More Than 50" Documented Socialists in The House!
From: doc_t...@DELETEME.bigfoot.com (Doc Tavish)
Date: 1998/04/24
Message-ID: <3540b61f....@news.tavish-central.net>
Additional information recently posted (6/13/98) on Bernie Sanders:
http://www.house.gov/bernie/press/1997/01-09-97.html
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
January 9, 1997
SANDERS SPEAKS TO PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS CONFERENCE
The House Progressive Caucus held a major conference today attended by
national leaders of the labor movement, the women's movement, the
environmental community, the civil rights community and academia. A
number of progressive Congresspersons also attended.
Congressman Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., gave a speech detailing some of the
very serious economic problems facing the middle class and working
families of this country, and urged the Congress to make these issues
the centerpiece of Congressional action during the coming year. In his
remarks, Sanders said:
"Far and away, the most important issue facing this country is whether
our middle class will survive, or whether we will evolve into a
country of the very rich and the poor. Congress must address our
government's disastrous economic policies which today benefit the very
wealthy, at the expense of the middle class and working families of
this country. We must bring fundamental reform to our tax policies,
our trade policies, our campaign finance policies, and our health care
policies. Government must begin working for all the people, and not
just the privileged few."
Sanders continued, "It is unacceptable that the United States now has,
by far, the most unequal distribution of wealth and income in the
industrialized world. The richest one percent of the population now
owns 42 percent of the wealth, more than the bottom ninety percent --
and the gap between the rich and the poor is growing wider. For the
last fifteen years, almost all of the new wealth created in this
country has gone to the upper ten percent -- while eighty percent of
all American families saw either a decline in their incomes, or income
stagnation. Meanwhile, most of the new jobs being created are low wage
jobs that are temporary or part time, and most have very limited
benefits."
[...]
[That last paragraph looks pretty Marxist to me! I guess Bernie wants
the government to redistribute the wealth like they did in all the
other Communistic Worker's Paradises! Tavish comment]
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The founder of the Congressional Progressive Caucus is:
BERNIE SANDERS
http://www.house.gov/bernie/biography/index.html
Congressional Quarterly's "Politics in America" Biographical
On January 3, 1991, Bernard Sanders came to Congress as Vermont's only
Representative in the House and the first Independent elected to
Congress in 40 years. He was sworn in for his fourth term in office in
January, 1997.
Sanders focused his efforts during the 104th Congress on the work of
the House Progressive Caucus, which he founded and chairs. Since its
establishment in 1991, the Progressive Caucus has grown from 5 Members
to 58 Members.
[...]
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To see the relevancy of Sander's Socialism to him being a Jew just examine these links. All fully documented with credible sources such as you all have seen so far.
http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=358303558&fmt=text
Subject: National Foundation for Jewish Culture - Socialism Imported Into America by Jews
Brief Excerpt:
From: National Foundation for Jewish Culture
http://shamash.org/nfjc/jcn/F95-2.htm
LOST IN HISTORY
A Stanford graduate student attempts to find how socialism, Yiddish,
and American Jewish history fit together.
Between 1890 and 1924, Eastern European immigration to the U.S.
created a poor but vibrant Jewish community heavily indebted to
Yiddish culture and socialist politics imported from the old country.
"Socialism has been perceived as a hostile and alien element,
associated with communism, and one that only serves to hurt the
religious tradition," explains Michels, who has been a lecturer at
Temple Beth Torah in Fremont, California....
[...]
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http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=348866061&fmt=text
Subject: >Israel's Socialist Roots Reviewed in Book Available from Amazon.Com (Jews Spread Socialism Where Ever They Go!)
http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=357080913&fmt=text
Subject: Why Is It ALL Socialist/Communists Have Their Home Offices In New (Jew) York City?
http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=348866101&fmt=text
Subject: >"Jews must help labor, build world socialism."<
http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=355660591&fmt=text
Subject: Assault on Munich and Jewish Kurt Eisner (Germany early 1900s) [This is a MUST READ Post! Be sure to visit all of the links too! 6/14/98 Doc Tavish]
http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=356832967&fmt=text
Subject: Young Socialists run by Jew Adam Levenstein (Repost from Know Your Communist Series)
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I certify that all reading the above material, while considering the sources from which I got the information will see a very distinct pattern. Our very American way of life is under assault internally and the vast majority of the citizenry is fast asleep. Fellow Americans it is now time that you had your wake up call. Now save this document, print it out, give it to all that you know- friends and relatives and last but not least- verify all of the information that I have worked hours to compile and supp
ly! Our forefathers had no intentions of their dream being defecated on in this manner.
I will leave all oif you this and you should think long and hard about the source and its implications:
From my post: http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=347311060&fmt=text
Lucy S. Dawidowicz's book titled THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS1933-1945 by
Bantam Books Incorporated [#13084-6, 1979 ed]. The book's
"Acknowledgments" starts with: "This book
had its genesis in a course I developed at the suggestion of Rabbi
David Mirsky, Dean of Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University [New
York, New York 10033-3201] [I added the address- it was not in the
original text]. ...I am indebted to the Yivo Institute for Jewish
Research, the Blaustein Library of the American Jewish Committee..."
Xref above: http://x4.dejanews.com/getdoc.xp?AN=321851810&fmt=text
Page 356 states:
"In early 1942 the Polska Partia Robotnicza
[PPR], the Communist party in a new guise
made its appearance in the Generalgouverne-
ment... The PPR is mentioned again on page
431 where we read: "The Soviet Union, for
example, began in 1943 to back only such
indigenous Communist resistance movements in
the several East European countries as would
provide it with postwar political footholds
there.
... The Soviet Union, for its part, through
the PPR supported the People's Army with funds
and materiel, on the calculation that it would
establish the Communist presence in postwar
Poland." For further proof of Jewry's
communistic ties turn to page 434 [bottom] and
read the socialist and communist links : "The
[Jewish Labor] Bundists were cut off from contact
with Polish Socialists; the Jewish Communists were
isolated from their parent PPR." [The PPR is
mentioned above.] The Jewish Judenrat leadership
advised, starting on page 436: "One form of
compromise between ghetto and the resistance
movement was the option in Eastern areas for the
Jewish youth to join the Soviet partisan movement.
... The first thing the partisan learned, if he
lived long enough, was that in defense of the Soviet
Union no human cost was too high."
[Who were these Jews loyal to?]
Page 360 "Early in 1941 the Bund's Central
Committee in the Warsaw ghetto sent a report to its
New York organization, describing its functions as
it then perceived them... [Communists have a New
York operation! Tavish comment added] the Bund's
Central Committee adopted a policy statement
setting forth their political hopes and expectations:
Poland is our homeland, where we are entitled to equal
citizenship rights, where our future lies. . . . Any other
Solutions offered, under present conditions, by Zionist
or other Jewish groups, are wrong and utopian, as they
always were. Together with the Polish working masses
struggling underground, the Jewish people of Poland
see no other means of survival, but the defeat of Hitler-
ism and the reconstruction of a free, independent, and
Socialist Poland." [Jews want a Socialist Poland and
they got it after WW II. Tavish comment added]
Page 361-2 "On May 1, 1941, Dror issued a proclamation
that avowed once more the movement's dual loyalty to
Palestine and socialism and which held out the hope of
the inevitable realization of a socialist Palestine:
The struggle with the Hitlerite conqueror has tem-
porarily separated us from Eretz Israel, but just as there
is no power in the world that can separate us from the
struggle for a socialist world, thus nothing can separate
us from the land of our ultimate hope. The building of
Eretz Israel is undeniably connected with the collapse
of capitalism; a socialist Eretz Israel will rise or fall
with the success or failure of socialism."
[...]
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For the Jews to succeed capitalism needs to collapse! Read this over and
over many times to let it sink in! Now go read all about Bernard Sanders in
our U.S. Congress, his Progressive Caucus and agenda, and his association
with the Democratic Socialists of America. Now what are you going to do?
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