By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two seemingly irreconcilable cultures, Kimmerling composes a sophisticated portrait of one side's behavior and characteristics and the way in which they irrevocably shaped those of the other.
Kimmerling focuses on the clashes, tensions, and complementarities that link Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli identities. He explores the phenomena of reciprocal relationships between Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory Palestine, relations between state and society in Israel, patterns of militarism, the problems of jurisdiction in an immigrant-settler society, and the ongoing struggle of Israel to achieve legitimacy as both a Jewish and a democratic state. By merging Israeli and Jewish studies with a vast body of scholarship on Palestinians and the Middle East, Kimmerling introduces a unique conceptual framework for analyzing the cultural, political, and material overlap of both societies. A must read for those concerned with Israel and the relations between Jews and Arabs, Clash of Identities is a provocative exploration of the ever-evolving, always-contending identities available to Israelis and Palestinians and the fascinating contexts in which they take form.
- Contents
- Preface
- chapter one: A Model for Analyzing Reciprocal Relations Between the Jewish and Arab Communities in Mandatory Palestine
- chapter two: Collective Identity as Agencyand Structuration of Society: The Israeli Example
- chapter three: The Formation Process of Palestinian Collective Identities: The Ottoman and Colonial Periods
- chapter four: Between Primordial and Civil Definitions of the Collective Identity: Eretz Israel or the State of Israel?
- chapter five: State Building, State Autonomy,and the Identity of Society: The Case of the Israeli State
- chapter six: Patterns of Militarism in Israel
- chapter seven: The Social Construction of Israel’s National Security
- chapter eight: Jurisdiction in anImmigrant-Settler Society: The Jewish and Democratic State
- chapter nine: Exchanging Territories for Peace: A Macrosociological Approach
- chapter ten: Nationalism, Identity, and Citizenship: An Epilogue to the Yehoshua-Shammas Controversy:A Non-Platonic Dialogue
- chapter eleven: The Power-Oriented Settlement: PLO-Israel:The Road to the Oslo Agreement and Back?*
- chapter twelve: Politicide: Ariel Sharon’s Legacy and the Palestinians
- Epilogue
- Chronology of Major Events
- Notes
- Index
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