02909nam 2200613Ia 450 991045878030332120200520144314.01-282-92196-797866129219640-7391-4892-3(CKB)2670000000060679(EBL)662349(OCoLC)705539204(SSID)ssj0000433141(PQKBManifestationID)11294817(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000433141(PQKBWorkID)10389151(PQKB)11567210(MiAaPQ)EBC662349(Au-PeEL)EBL662349(CaPaEBR)ebr10437341(CaONFJC)MIL292196(EXLCZ)99267000000006067920100311d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn American political scientist in Israel[electronic resource] from Athens to Jerusalem /Paul EidelbergLanham Lexington Booksc20101 online resource (380 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-7391-4890-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments; Prologue What Israel Means to Me; Chapter 1 My Talks with Israeli Leaders: A Question of Truth; Chapter 2 Sadat's Strategy; Chapter 3 Camp David and Statecraft; Chapter 4 Self-Determination; Chapter 5 The Fixation of Israel's Elites on "Land for Peace": Five Interpretations1; Chapter 6 Demophrenia; Chapter 7 The UN-PLO Axis of Evil: Part I; Chapter 8 The UN-PLO Axis of Evil: Part II; Chapter 9 Ideological and Political Dissonance; Chapter 10 Politics, the Art of the Possible; Bibliography; IndexThis book recounts the author's meetings with some of Israel's political and intellectual leaders after he immigrated to Israel in 1976. He reveals the flawed mentality of Israel's elites and their policy of 'land for peace.' Contributing to this failure is Israel's unstable system of multi-party cabinet government and the country's lack of a written Constitution. Eidelberg offers a Jewish-democratic version of the American Constitution, whose Hebraic roots were recognized by learned men of the eighteenth century.Elite (Social sciences)IsraelIsraelPolitics and government1967-1993IsraelPolitics and government1993-IsraelForeign relationsIsraelRelationsUnited StatesUnited StatesRelationsIsraelElectronic books.Elite (Social sciences)320.95694Eidelberg Paul250157MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458780303321An American political scientist in Israel2487780UNINA