Israël et ses paradoxes: idées reçues sur Israël
“Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existential... See more
The memory or vicarious memory of 1948 and the subsequent decades of humiliation and deprivation in the refugee camps would ultimately turn generations of Palestinians into potential or active terrorists and the “Palestinian problem” into one of the world’s most intractable.29
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
After the publication of Herzl’s Altneuland in 1902, the battle between Herzl and Ahad Ha’am (who was by then Herzl’s most vociferous critic) grew even uglier. But just a year later, the pogrom in Kishinev led even the apolitical Ahad Ha’am to back off—everyone understood that the Jewish people needed to set aside differences and to prepare a way t
... See moreDaniel Gordis • Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn
Et, demande Jacob, qu’en est-il du miracle des juifs qui survivent quand les autres nations disparaissent ? — Je ne vois rien là de miraculeux, rien qui ne puisse s’expliquer autrement que par des causes naturelles. Les juifs ont survécu depuis la Diaspora parce qu’ils ont toujours refusé de se mêler aux autres cultures. Ils sont restés à l’écart e
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