Dissonance in Zion

"Dissonance in Zion" by Michael E. Jansen, published by Zed Books. Because Israel is generally presented to the world as a solidly unified country, with all its component peoples successfully melted into the national pot, outsiders have little notion of the partisanship and particularism of Israeli political life. Israel is a country of opinionated people and conflicting ideologies. While gathering material for this book the author paid two visits to the country and interviewed more than fifty Israelis who spoke frankly about their society and its current political situation.This book is meant to be a guide to the contemporary Israeli political scene, a description of where Israel has reached and how it got there, and an assessment of the possibility of peace in the region.The book’s focus is the 1982 invasion of Lebanon which was, and remains, a critical experience for Israel. This war brought to the surface of Israeli political life the ideological contradictions within the Zionist ideology of the state and deepened the socio-cultural division of the society produced by the in-gathering of Jews from the world over. This deepening rift jeopardizes the democratic foundations of the state and, because of the need for an external challenge to re-establish a national consensus, threatens to plunge the Middle East into a new war. Book details: 168 pages, published 1987. Order now on BookShops.in with fast, reliable delivery across India.