Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom

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Index African-Americans, 207, 209 Agudat Israel, 187 Aharoni, Yair, 127 Albin, Cecilia, 157 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 44 American Israel Public Affairs Committee, 71 American Jewish Committee, 70, 71 Anderson, Benedict, 178 Alon Plan, 44, 237-8 Aloni, Shulamit, 151 Algeria, 207, 228, 230, 232 Apter, David, 179, 180 Arab-Israeli conflict Egyptian attitudes toward, 94-99 impact on research, 10, 11, 14 Arafat, Yasir, 40, 147 Association for Israel Studies, 18 Australia, 230, 231, 235 Bandung Conference, 15 Basic Law on Jerusalem, 149, 154, 156, 159 Beilin, Yossi, 5 Begin, Menachem, 136 fn. 15 and settlements, 238-9 and Jerusalem, 149, 158 and foreign policy, 36, 37, 39 belief systems, 247--49, 250 Ben-Gurion, David, 33, 212 on Diaspora, 64, 65, 67, 70, 76 on Jerusalem, 160-1 Ben-Porath, Yoram, 134 Bialer, Uri, 13 Binder, Leonard, 179 Britain, 209 mandate in Palestine, 119, 177, 186, 188-89 Bush, George, 194 Camp David, comparison with Declaration of Principles, 39--40 Carter, Jimmy, 38, 39 case-based research, 4--5, 7-6. Also see Comparative Method; Israel, as unique state. Chazan, Naomi, 92, 157 citizen attitudes: in Egypt, 89, 97-102 in Israel, 90, 91, 92-93 citizenship, 206, 207, 208, 191-200 and democracy, 191-2, 206 in Israel, 191-2, 202 Clinton, William J., 40, 41 Cohen, Geula, 154, 156 colonization, 229-31 Committee for Comparative Study of New Nations, 179-181 Comparative Method, 3, 4-5 and uniqueness, 7-8, 245--47 and social science, 12-13, 249 and development studies, 4 Declaration of Principles, 11, 29, 35, 38--47 291 292 Index Declaration of Principles (con't) comparison with Camp David, 39--40 and Declaration of Principles, 45--46 Labor and, 43 Likud and, 29, 42, 43 U.S. and, 40, 44 decolonization, 241 Democracy: and citizenship, 191-92, 206 and Israel, 250 [cite kook] and nationalism, 203--4 and national identities, 203-9 Dependency theory, 117-8 treatment of Israel, 111-6 development studies: and comparative method, 4 treatment of Israel, 109-116 role of the state, 117-8 Diaspora, 35, 200, 216 assimilation of, 58-59 David Ben Gurion on, 64, 65, 67, 70,76 definition, 54-55 dual loyalties, 70, 72-76 factors shaping relations with home state, 61-3 and Holocaust, 69 and Likud Party, 75 origins, 55-57, 78 Palestinian, 77 Shimon Peres on, 70 Yitkhak Rabin on, 72 strategies of, 60, 78-80 uniqueness of, 53-54; 57-58; 251 and Yishuv, 65 Domino Theory, 31 Dropless Plan, 238 East Asia, and theories of development, 117-8, 122-124 comparison with Israeli development, 117-8, 122-25; 133-34 Eban, Abba, 48, fn. 18; 162 Egypt: citizen attitudes in, 89, 97-102 attitudes toward peace, 92, 94-99, 97-102, 103 attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict, 94-99 Eisenstadt, S.N., 114, 236 Eliot, T.S., 245 European Union, 260, fn. 32 Faysal, Emir, 187 fetish, 143--4 Jerusalem as, 143--44, 157-62, 164-65 Feldman, Shai, 34 feminism. See also gender. feminism and international relations, 85-87, 103 feminism and nationalism, 87-88 Fieldhouse, D.K., 229, 240 France, 207 Frank, Andre Gunder, 112-3, 114, 115-6 Fredrickson, George, 229, 230, 231, 240 Galili Plan, 238 garrison state, 53 Gazit, Shlomo, 44 Geertz, Clifford, 179 on civic and ethnic bases of society, 182-84 Gellner, Ernest, 183 gender. See also femimism, Israel, Egypt. and international relations, 85-87, 103 attitudes in Israel toward equality, 92-93 General Systems Theory, 253-54 Golan, Galia, 92 Green Line, 146, 149, 152 Gurr, Motta, 37 Gush Emunim, 163, 194, 239, 240 Hadash, 214 Hapoel Hatzair, 233 Hartz, Louis, 173 hegemonic beliefs, 143-4 Herzl, Theodore, 233 Histadrut, 111, 119-20, 137 fn. 32, 185, 227, 235, 237, 238, 241 Holocaust, 235 and Israeli identity, 16, 252 and Diaspora, 69 Horowitz, Dan, 114, 185, 189, 236 Horowitz, Irving L., 5 Intifada, 43, 45, 46, 91 Ireland, 228, 240 Islamic Jihad, 45 Israel Arab minority in, 181, 190, 191-92, 193, 194-5, 249. See also Israeli Arabs. attitudes toward peace, 92-93, 97102 , 103 attitudes toward gender equality, 92-93 attitudes toward the Arab-Israeli conflict citizen attitudes in, 90, 91, 92-93 citizenship, 191-92, 202 as corporatist state, 8 as democratic state, 250 and dependency theory, 111-6 and development studies, 117-8 emergence of capitalist class, 120 identity and Holocaust, 16...