Governing Israel: Chosen People, Promised Land, and Prophetic TraditionTransaction Publishers - 207 oldal Israeli politics and policymaking reflect themes long imbedded in Jewish culture. The concepts of Chosen People and Promised Land, and their meaning in Christian as well as Jewish religious traditions, assure that Israel is perpetually in the international spotlight. They also impose a sense of distinctiveness on the Israeli population. Some Israelis trumpet their country's accomplishments with unrestrained superlatives. Social critics accuse Israel of having the worst of the world's conditions. In this they reflect another trait that seems to have been inherited from the ancients: the prophetic tradition of extreme self-criticism. In reality, much of what occurs in Israel is similar to what occurs in countries that share its characteristics: democracy, western culture, and an advanced level of economic development. Such an idea may seem bizarre alongside headlines about suicide bombings and the country's aggressive defensive posture. This misses what is normal about Israel. In Israel policymakers weigh benefits and costs of various options, and generally choose something moderate, just as they do elsewhere. But this reality does not dim the rhetoric of politics, where hyperbole frequently seems more evident than rational discourse. Sharkansky discusses three central issues in Israeli public affairs: religion, national security, and social policy. He describes how policymakers relate to these issue and themes. Major problems may not be solved, but they are managed in a way that is tolerable. It is in this trait that Israel resembles other western democracies. In sum, biblical themes affect Israel's political rhetoric more than they affect the way officials actually work out their problems. Pragmatic coping with worldly realities generally overcomes emotional expressions that convey ingredients of spirituality. Ira Sharkansky, born and raised in Fall River, Massachusetts, has been professor of political science and public administration at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem since 1975. He is author of several works, including Coping with Terror: An Israeli Perspective, Politics and Policymaking: In Search of Simplicity, and The Political Economy of Israel, the latter available from Transaction. |
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... . Jews—Election, Doctrine of. 4. Palestine in Judaism. 5. Prophecy— Judaism. 6. Rhetoric—Political aspects—Israel. I. Title. DS126.5.S4437 2005 320.6'095694—dc22 2004058004 Contents Preface vii 1. The Chosen People in the Promised.
... Palestinian Terror, External Constraints, and Domestic Dispute 101 6. Misplaced Hyperbole: Traffic Deaths and Social Policy 127 7. University Management: Aspirations and Problems in the Promised Land 149 8. A Place with Too Much History ...
... Palestinians? The amount of attention by the media, the United Nations, and the politicians of major countries to the killing of perhaps 4,000 Israelis and Palestinians during intifada al-Aqsa from September 2000 is many times that ...
... Palestinians and the United States' reactions to the attacks of September 11, 2001, is the claim that there is a chronic conflict of civilizations between Muslim and western countries.7 Israel is a tiny country about the size of ...
... Palestine. They conveniently overlooked the non-Jewish residents by speaking about “a land without a people for a people without a land.” Some idealized about Arabs who would welcome the progress that the Jews would bring with them. Yet ...
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