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Reports that Jewish liberalism have recently resurfaced in the U.S. Establishment of the Jewish charity to extend assistance to the suffering victims of the Third World; Support provided by Jews to Palestinian nationalism and universal liberalization; Cognitive dissonance fostered in American Jews by the gap between their inherited political ideas and their situation; Re-establishment of Jews as sovereign people, by the creation of the State of Israel, sanctioned by the United Nations.

Discusses the threat posed by Rabbi Meir Kahane to the Israeli government. Influence of Kahane on the country's political culture; Views of Kahane on the equality of rights between Arabs and Jews; Achievement of the Jewish state with respect to the relationship of nationalism to democracy.

Focuses on the efforts of Israelis to resolve fundamental questions about how the country should be governed. Lack of a constitution, as of 1998; Lack of consensus about that it means to be a Jewish state; Disagreement about the kind of society that Israel should be; The split between the country's religious factions.

The article focuses on the impact of Israeli occupation eroding Israeli democracy through a narrow neo-Zionist patriotism, a culture of disregard for the law and a divided national identity. It talks of identifying five main reasons of deterioration in Israeli democracy including intensive use of propaganda, a weakening of the authority of law, and the involvement of the military in politics and concludes that Israeli society needs to identify within the equation of Jewish and democratic state.

Focuses on the declaration of a new alliance in the Middle East. Fear of rising Arab nationalism; Information that the alliance unites Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, and Israel; Stability of most alliances in the Middle East; Statement that alliance is based on peripheral doctrine; Impact of the peripheral doctrine on political decisions of various countries; History of military relations between Iran and Israel; Information on the Iranian revolution of 1979; Statement that the peripheral school in Israel's intelligence community and academia had long maintained that Persian nationalism; Intervention of the U.S. in the Arab-Israel peace process.

Focuses on the emergence of ethnic politics in Israel; Call for a strike by the Arabs on grounds of discriminatory treatment meted out to them in Israel; Views of an inherent problem which is deeper than discrimination and ethnic self assertion; Reference to Israeli-Palestinian relations on the West Bank; Refusal of the Arab states to accept Israeli statehood; Views that Israel must share cordial relations with the Palestinians; Israel has been liberal in its attitude towards Palestine; Resentment among the people of the West Bank on being ruled by Israel; Reference to obstacles to the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank; Nationalism of the Jews and hostility of the surrounding Arab states.

The article focuses on the national-religious parties in Israel such as the Religious Zionists. Topics discussed include the election in the country, the national identity of the country, and the social aspects of religious community. Also mentioned are the politics and government in the country, the relations of Israel and Palestine, and the national-religious settlers in Israel.

The article focuses on the relations of Judaism, Zionism, and the State of the Jews. Topics discussed include the social aspects of religion, the religious identity of Zionism, and the management of Jewish communities. Also mentioned are the national identity of Israel, the importance of religious education, and the religious conflict between Israel and Palestine.

The article explores how the latest round of violence in Gaza has led to the reemergence of the Palestinian national movement as well as more skepticism among Israelis about repeatedly making war on Hamas. Topics include Peace efforts have failed because of one, inconvenient truth: the Israeli maximum on offer does not meet the Palestinian minimum, or the standards of international law; and significant support in the U.S. within the Democratic Party defending Palestinian rights.

The article presents information on Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who is said to be focused on Palestinian Arab nation building and state formation. This is said to offer a possible means of resolving the conflicts between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs. Fayyad's pragmatic approach of creating a functioning Palestinian state is contrasted with the hitherto favored approaches of armed conflict and political negotiation. The distinction between opposition and enmity is noted, and it is argued that Fayyad could be acting in opposition to Israeli interests without necessarily being an enemy of Israel.

The article presents authors views on Zionism as well as the formation of Israel as a nation. The author says that political ideologies within Zionism have varied from militant exclusive nationalism to humanistic socialism and national communism. The author says that ever since 1948, Israeli leaders have been worrying about ensuring a Jewish ethnic majority. The author says that most immigrants have moved to Israel under the threat of anti-Semitism, rather than for ideological reasons.

The article discusses why the Palestinian Authority (PA) is facing its most serious internal challenge since it was established in 1994. A violent showdown in the Gaza Strip between competing nationalist factions has threatened to destroy the PA and domestic security after four years of uprising against Israel. The turmoil represents a critical danger, not just for Palestinian society and its dreams of a unified state, but also for Israel's plan to disengage unilaterally from Gaza. If Israel implements Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Palestinian society will fragment even more, lose the benefit of unified representation, and possibly lapse into bloody infighting. But it is not too late to change course: holding Palestinian national elections before Israel's withdrawal could prevent chaos and help establish the foundations for a democratic Palestinian state committed to peaceful relations with Israel. For all the hope that elections offer, conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are not now conducive to holding them: the ongoing violence would make it difficult for voters to reach the ballot box. Palestinian factions must reach an understanding on a complete cease-fire during the election period. The U.S. and other international actors must ensure that the Palestinians and Israel implement their election-related commitments.

Compares the difference between the binationalism of the past and the Jewish binationalism of the pre-Israel era. Development of binationalism in the mid-1920s by Brit Shalom, a group of Jewish intellectuals; List of the founding members of Shalom; Accusations of Zionists against Shalom; Background of Ichud, a group that diverged in important respects from the ideological line of Brit Shalom.

Presents the history of the rise of Zionism and the Middle East conflict. Basis of the creation of Israel; Definition of Zionism and Jewish nationalism; Contradiction between a Jewish state and a liberal or socialist vision of equality; Historical root of the cause of the conflict.

Discusses the final novel written by George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda." Book recommended for those interested in the moral difficulties facing Israel, and in any national movement as it moves from an ideal to a reality; Victorian style of writing; Equation between the Jews and the British.

Focuses on the strategies in constructing the Israeli and Palestinian identity. Recognition on the national traits and identity; Factors contributing to parallel strategies in the construction of identity; Differences in contemporary developments and Western experiences.

Relates the conversation of the author with an immigrant lady in Israel who came from Russia. Arguments over the Israeli Jewish identity; Complexity in Israeli Jewish identity; Factors contributing to the Arab Israeli identity.

Examines the socio-psychological and political significance of borders in Israeli identity. Notion of unilateral separation from Palestinians; Demarcation lines between Israelis and Palestinians; Application on the concept of culturalism.

Focuses on the impact of colonial Zionist on Israeli identity. Aim of the Zionist project; Qualities in expressing commitment to Zionism; Factors hampering the efforts to pursue policies in the Israeli-Palestinian relations.

The author pays tribute to Edward Said, a professor of literature at Columbia University and a contributor to "The Nation" who died on September 25, 2003. Born in Jerusalem to a well-off Palestinian family, educated at the best schools in Cairo and the United States, Said could have been content with his distinguished career as a professor of literature at Columbia. But as author of seminal books that factored colonialism into the Western literary canon -- including "Orientalism," one of the most influential works of intellectual history of the past three decades, and "Culture and lmperialism" -- he had a larger vision of his place in the world and his responsibilities as an Arab in the West. So he created another life, as a critic of Western imperialism and a champion of Palestinian liberation. His association with "The Nation" emblemized both his lives. He wrote articles on the Middle East and also served as music critic. He turned his lucid, elegantly erudite prose to interpreting the Palestinian-Israeli struggle. He was as passionate about his music criticism--a post serendipitously assigned him by the literary editor, who knew him as a concert-level pianist. Said considered the true role Of the artist and the intellectual in our times to be "speaking the truth to power, being a witness to persecution and suffering, and supplying a dissenting voice in conflicts with authority." A great and distinctive voice is stilled, too soon.

Focuses on relations between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Effect of the killing of 13 Arab citizens by the police; Views of Arabs that the Jewish state considers them enemies rather than citizens; Views of Saleh Tarif, a member of the Druse minority, on the equality between the Druse and the Jews; Hope of Tarif that Arab Israelis will find their national identity by aligning with the Zionists.

Studies the profound effects that the peace dawning between Israel, the Palestinians and the Arab nations will have on Israeli identity. Contention that with the consolidation of peace, the external impetus for a cohesive Israeli identity will steadily erode; Foreseen disintegration of components of Israeli identity that grew from the struggle for military security.

The article focuses on the impact of introducing the nation-state law in Israel on the country's nationalism, Judaism, and democracy. Topics include Israel Parliament Knesset's claim of the country is Jewish, the political rights of Arab minorities, and the thoughts of Israelis of being egalitarian.

The article discusses the role of Druze people in Israel in protests against Israel's nation-state law known as "Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People" that declares the country to be Jewish. Topics include concerns about democracy and minority rights, the Israeli identity of Druze Arabs, and an effort by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to appease Druze protesters.

The article focuses on the nationalist and religious views of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ahmadinejad has said that Israel should be eliminated from the map, and has claimed that no enemy of Iran can stand in its way. Human rights violations in Iran are discussed, including the execution of political prisoners overseen by Interior Minister Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi.

"Thirst for strength" is one driver of Israeli ethnonationalist expansionism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Profiles Sheikh Yassin, the founder and organizer of the terrorist group Hamas. Responsibility for the strategy of suicide bombing and the recruitment of young bombers; Prediction that Israel would collapse in 2007; Desire to kill Jews; Prediction of his own death as the happiest day of his life; Illustration of the emotional impetus that religion adds to an otherwise stagnant nationalist movement; Highlights from his life.

Editorial. Focuses on the issue of national identity between Palestine and Israel. Definition of national identity; Activities inherent to the construction of national identity; Conflict in national identity.

This article presents information regarding rights of Palestinians. The families of prisoners, the staff of closed and censored publications, the victims of eviction and confiscation, none were ever turned away. The author has met influential "civil society" Palestinians alive today who were protected as students when Israel was a professor of chemistry at the Hebrew University; from him they learned never to generalize about Jews. And they respected him not just for his consistent stand against discrimination but also because-he never condescended to them. He detested nationalism and religion and made no secret of his contempt for the grasping Yasser Arafat entourage.

Reflects on the speech given by Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem, where he envisioned a future in which there will be no more anti-Jewish feeling among Christians or anti-Christian feeling among Jews. Assessment of the public response to the speech, which was contrary to Israeli commentators' anticipation of dissent; Shift in the policy of Israeli press following the speech towards solidarity; Support for the reconciliation speech from Israel Prime Minister Ehud Barak; Resistance to the apology from orthodox Jewish nationalists.

Describes the Israeli Arab village of Barta'a, a single community divided between two nations, Israel and Jordan, after the Israeli War of Independence in 1940 set the national borders through the middle of the town. Contrasts standard of living between Israeli side and Jordan side; Confusion of residents over `intifada' support.

An editorial is presented which addresses Israeli prime minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu who has been elected to a record fifth term in office as of 2019, and it mentions Netantahu's skills as a political performer in the wake of various corruption charges. According to the article, Netayahu's victory came about through a combination of nationalism, anti-elitism, and Jewish chauvinism. The historical aspects of U.S.-Israeli relations are addressed, along with Jews and Arabs in Israel.

Just as United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan was leaving town, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once again donning the skullcap and visiting fortified settlements and celebrating another triumph over U.S. Netanyahu does not depend on the clerical and nationalist extremists just for votes. He depends on them as allies against the Israeli left and as shock troops for the West Bank. Moreover, they are his ideological forebears. The U.S. government persists in talking as if the only difference concerned percentages of territory, and the pace at which these would be turned over to self-rule.

Examines the political legacy of the late Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Begin's critics contend that he brought out the worst in Israel, creating a populistic nationalism based on incitement of the masses. His role in the Camp David peace process; The political future of the homeland he fought so hard for.

The article reports that Csand Szegedi, former Vice President of Hungarian political party Jobbik, has applied for Israeli citizenship. It presents the views of Szegedi, on Jobbik leader Gabor Vona's message on radicalism and nationalism of the party. It also mentions the documentary film "Keep Quiet," which focuses on radical transformation of Szegedi.

The article discusses the complex and confusing system faced by Israel's Palestinian citizens intended to disenfranchise and impoverish them. There are currently 1.5 million Palestinian citizens of Israel with at least 370,000 internally displaced. Israel's discriminatory education system managed to build a cultural roadblock for a collective Palestinian identity hoping that the remaining Palestinians will adopt Israeli national identity with less resistance.

The article focuses on the challenges facing Palestinians in developing their individual as well as national identity. It cites the tactics being used by Israelis to demoralize Palestinians. It mentions that the deterioration of Palestinian morale is further exacerbated by factional infighting and the international support of one faction over the other. It emphasizes the need for Palestinians to build a national consciousness and demand for liberation.

Pays tribute to the late Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) founder Yasser Arafat. Role of the PLO in the modern practice of terrorism and national consciousness of the Palestinians; Factors that contributed to the failure of Arafat in using the power given by Israel to govern the Occupied Territories to eliminate terrorist groups within the Palestinian society; Impact of the death of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Arafat and on the Palestinians.

Comments on how worldwide attitudes towards the U.S. have hardened since the terrorist attacks of 2001. Efforts of author to try and explain the hatred so many countries feel towards the U.S.; How Americans are seen as religious and nationalistic; The U.S. relationship with Israel; Details of books on the subject.

The article reflects on the possibility of introducing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It considers the human victims of the ongoing conflict on both sides, some of them children. It considers the expanding population of Arab Palestinians which poses a threat to Israeli identity. It also urges both sides to return to negotiations.

The author offers opinions on Judaism and politics in Israel. It is argued that Jews of all sects in Israel should promote a sense of Jewish identity and the haredim ultra-Orthodox Jews should be more assimilated into Israeli society if the country is to develop a form of Jewish nationalism which can allow a means of settling the Arab-Israeli conflict while maintaining Israel as both a Jewish state and a democracy.

The article reports on the gathering of thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the western Galilee for the annual March of Return on April 26, 2012. The gathering coincided with the annual Israeli "Independence Day" celebrations and the march ended on land belonging to Kweikat village. According to psychologist Siwar Aslih, it is a very unique march. According to the author, there was a very strong spirit of positive Palestinian cultural nationalism throughout the day.

The article reports on issues related to food and nationalism between Israel and other nations of the Middle East. At issue is the Lebanese contention that Lebanon is the birthplace of hummus, a chickpea dish that is popular in Israel. The article notes that while Israelis would concede that hummus is an Arab dish, Israeli food companies have been successful on the international market selling hummus as an Israeli delicacy.

The article reports on a development plan being implemented by the Israeli government which would further Israeli control over the Holy City of Jerusalem. The plan is aimed at transforming the area known as Holy Basin into a major Biblical Kingdom through the creation of nine national parks and tourist trails based on historical sites. The plan has a budget of $165 million and is controlled by ultra-nationalist Israeli settler groups.

The article focuses on the commendation of the army rabbinate by the religious media during the fighting in Gaza Strip. The significant presence of rabbis was reportedly supported by the substantial role of religious officers and soldiers in the front-line units of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). One of the rabbis who joined the troops in the field on several occasions was Brigadier General Avichai Rontzki. According to the author, the tone of nationalist propaganda is reflected in the written material disseminated by the IDF rabbinate during the war.

The article discusses the book "Israel & Palestine: Why They Fight and Can They Stop?," by Bernard Wasserstein. This book challenges the conventional view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as driven primarily by irrational, nationalist and religious ideologies. It focuses on hitherto relatively neglected dimensions--population, land, labour, and the social dynamics of political change. It maintains that Israelis and Palestinians live today in "Siamese twin societies." However much they may wish to, neither side can escape the impinging presence and influence of the other.

Focuses on the political leadership of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Reference to a suicide bombing by a Palestinian in Israel on November 1, 2004; Report that Arafat was flown to Paris, France, due to illness; Hope of Israelis that the death of Arafat would lead to renewed peace negotiations with Palestine; Possibility that Arafat's successor will be a nationalist or an Islamist militiaman; Killings of Palestinians by Israelis in the occupied territories; Failure of Arafat to provide Palestinians with protection; Discussion of the impending removal of Israelis from Jewish settlements in Gaza and the West Bank.

Discusses the appointment of Effi Eitam to the government of Ariel Sharon in Israel. Comparison of Eitam with Austrian extreme nationalist Jörg Haider; Controversy over the military career of Eitam; His election by the National Religious Party.