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Zionism and the State of Israel 1st Edition

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Zionism and the State of Israel provides a topical and controversial analysis of the development of Zionism and the recent history and politics of Israel.
This thought-provoking study examines the ways in which the Bible has been used to legitimize the implementation of the ideological and political programme of Zionism, and the consequences this has had.

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    0415757746
  2. ISBN-13
    978-0415757744
  3. Edition
    1st
  4. Publication date
    April 8, 2014
  5. Language
    English
  6. Dimensions
    6 x 0.72 x 9 inches
  7. Print length
    316 pages
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'Anyone seriously concerned with justice, peace and human rights generally , will value Prior's insights' - Stephen W. Need, Theology

'this excellent book is a scholarly challenge to the modern mind; it goes far beyond the emotional response we hear so often and challenges the morality of what is happening.' - Stéphane Joulain, Proche-Orient Chretien

'... [a] well-researched and well-written book ...' - Dominic Kirkham, Renew

'... Prior excels in the broad picture. He dashes off quick, thumbnail sketches to underpin a host of theological and philosophical ideas ... The book emerges as a sort of all-in-one kit ...' - Julius Purcell, The Tablet

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (April 8, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 316 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415757746
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0415757744
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 16 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.72 x 9 inches
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J. A Magill
1.0 out of 5 stars Grinds a heavy axe
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2003
Always be concerned when a scholar ventures out of area. That should be the rule placed on Michael Prior in his rather insipid and occasional shrill work of propaganda. The very title betrays the arc for the entire storyline of his work; what other nation or national liberation movement needs to face a "Moral inquiry?" Prior's work, so blatantly one sided that it is difficult to think people take this seriously, reads like nothing so much as a medieval passion play. As in those terrible pieces of anti-Semitic history, Prior offers up the Jews as perfect villain and the Arabs and Palestinians as innocent, near angelic, victims. His patronizing attitudes towards both is palpable throughout his work.
Prior does more than try his damndest to undermine the Jews historic attachment to Israel, a fact that prior to 1948 was recognized near universally by Christians and Muslims alike, but seeks to whitewash all of modern Arab history. The endless terror visited on Jews in Israel, from programs and massacres in the 1920's through to the endless wave of terrorism that Jews in Israel now confront goes largely ignored. His effort to paint Israel as a colonial movement ignores the Jews 2000 year attachment to the land of Israel, as well as the vibrant cultural, artistic, and scientific life that is present in the Jewish state. Even the rebirth of the Jews own language, Hebrew, the sure sign of a distinct nation is given no attention.
Creating a separate standard for Jews and Israel from other people and nations is the hallmark of modern anti-Semitism. That is in fact exactly what you see here. What other people must defend not only their right to their nation, but their very right to exist? Given Israel's position as the only democracy in the Middle East, indeed the only place in the region where Arabs can speak their minds and participate in an open political process without fear of the threat of violence, one does not need to make a leap to guess the particular axe Prior intends to grind.
Prior's relentless assault on truth and history is geared not to those who want to learn, but as propaganda at the ignorant and ammunition for those who hate Israel and the Jews. As such, it deserves scant attention as anything other than a symbol of the rising wave of anti-Semitism now engulfing the Jewish people.
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Peter J. Miano
5.0 out of 5 stars "Prior's 'Zionism' Breaks Ground, Violates No-Fly Zone"
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2000
Zionism and the State of Israel is essential reading for any student of the modern Middle East, especially those interested in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Zionism. Dr. Prior's careful, relentless expose is a turning point in the writing of the history of the modern Middle East, in which the establishment of the State of Israel is a pivotal, decisive event. It is not only a thorough, perceptive analyses of the history of Zionism, culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel, but also an examination of the consequences of this accomplishment on the people of Israel/Palestine, which includes the deliberate and ongoing political, legal and economic disenfranchisement of the people of Palestine. Dr. Prior's bold analysis breaks new ground in Western historiography. He avoids the condescension and patronizing favoritism towards Israel which accompanies most Western historiography on the State of Israel. Consequently, his conclusions are controversial and provocative. The Rev. Dr. Michael Prior is Principal Lecturer at St. Mary's University College, University of Surrey. He is an ordained Roman Catholic priest and a member of the order Vincentian Congregation (C.M.). Among his numerous books and essays are studies in the New Testament and his landmark study of land traditions in the Bible, The Bible and Colonialism: A Moral Critique. In this work, Dr. Prior introduced "moral critique of the Bible," a ground breaking form of biblical analysis which produced startling and long overdue insights. In Zionism and the State of Israel: a Moral Inquiry, Dr. Prior pursues his interest in moral critique, focusing on the history and moral impact Zionism. "The widespread Western support for the Zionist enterprise is particularly striking from a moral perspective. Whereas elsewhere the perpetrators of colonial plunder are objects of opprobrium, the Zionist conquest is widely judged to be a just and appropriate accomplishment..." (p.160.) Zionism and the State of Israel consists of five sections: The Achievement of Zionism, An Assessment of Zionism, The Biblical Justification of Zionism, The Mythological Justification of Zionism and Critique of Zionism. It is carefully footnoted and includes a comprehensive bibliography. After an overview of the history of Zionism and the State of Israel, Prior probes deeply into the history of the formative years of Zionism, tracing the roots of Zionism to the mid 1800's. This is particularly effective in exposing the various, tangled and sometimes conflicting agendas of early proponents of Zionism. These include not only Theodor Herzl, but his 19th century predecessors in envisioning a Zionist agenda, Moses Hess, Judah Alkalai and Leon Pisker. Prior's argumentation is effective in showing that Zionism, like other ideologies produced in Europe in the1900's was never a pure liberation movement, was certainly neither benign nor benevolent toward the indigenous peoples of Palestine, but rather included elements of racism, colonialism and nationalism. He examines the contrast between religious and secular Zionism and the development of Messianic Zionism in the wake of the 1967 war. He offers an insightful treatment, not only of fundamentalist Protestant Christian Zionism, but of the attitudes toward Zionism of mainstream Western Christianity as well. His discussion of the biblical dimensions of Zionism, the Zionist enterprise and the founding of the State of Israel is an important component of his overall argument, which leads the reader to the troubling realization that the biblical narrative is a fundamental tool in legitimating the dispossession of a people from their land and the continued oppression of a people. Prior's examination of the foundational mythology of the State of Israel is illuminating, not only in understanding the history of Israel, but also in understanding the psychology of all nationalist ideologies and nation states. Identifying the concept of foundational mythology is an important contribution to understanding the dynamics of national self-consciousness. Dr. Prior's treatment of the history of Zionism represents a significant breakthrough in Western historiography. His analysis is not only illuminating and thorough, it is also courageous. He notes that raising the issues he does is like entering an academic "no-fly zone." The almost complete silence among Western historians about the moral impact of the establishment of the State of Israel on the peoples of Israel and its neighbors is inexplicable, unless it is seen as a moral failure of the first magnitude, or that one's own personal ideology favors such deliberate ignorance. Dr. Prior's book demonstrates that Zionism's moral decay is not tangential, but rather at the heart of Zionism and that therefore, the avoidance of it can be accomplished only by blindness of a willful sort. The book is thus, not only a moral indictment of Zionism, but of historiography on Zionism and biblical scholarship as well. Yet, to call Dr. Prior's conclusions "controversial," as the book's publishers do in the book jacket, suggests that Dr. Prior is somehow out of step. Indeed, he is out of step with contemporary historiography, which, like contemporary biblical scholarship, all but ignores moral considerations. Indeed, Dr. Prior's scholarship is out of step as cutting edge scholarship in any field is. But this commends to us a re-examination of mainstream historiography and biblical scholarship, which itself is out of step with current norms of moral decency. He notes, "By modern standards of international law and human rights, the land narratives from Exodus to Joshua mandate "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity." (p.165) Zionism and the State of Israel, however, is itself, not beyond critique. Occasionally, Dr. Prior seems to eschew persuasion in favor of simple assertion. Further, one might suggest that Zionism cannot be understood without understanding the context of Western Christian persecution of Jews in which it germinated. Finally, Christian moral considerations must always be undertaken with the conviction that moral depravity is neither unique nor isolated, but indeed a universal element in human history. No nationalist ideology or ethnic chauvinism is immune to the critique Dr. Prior applies to Zionism. Be this as it may, Dr. Prior succeeds in redefining the terms of the discussion of modern Middle East history.Consideration of moral questions can no longer be ignored.
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