Barukh Kimerling Livres

By revisiting a century of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling uncovers unexpected influences between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who established the state of Israel. Challenging assumptions about these seemingly irreconcilable cultures, Kimmerling presents a nuanced portrait of how one side's behaviors and characteristics have irrevocably shaped the other. He examines the clashes, tensions, and complementarities that connect Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli identities. The exploration includes reciprocal relationships between Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory Palestine, the dynamics between state and society in Israel, patterns of militarism, jurisdiction issues in an immigrant-settler society, and Israel's ongoing struggle for legitimacy as both a Jewish and democratic state. By integrating Israeli and Jewish studies with extensive scholarship on Palestinians and the Middle East, Kimmerling offers a unique framework for analyzing the cultural, political, and material overlaps of both societies. This work is essential for anyone interested in Israel and the relationships between Jews and Arabs, providing a provocative examination of the evolving identities of Israelis and Palestinians within their complex contexts.

In the 100-year struggle for Palestine, history itself has been a battlefield, as Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs seek to challenge each other's claim to national identity. Whatever the outcome of the current phase in regional affairs, no real progress toward peace can occur before agreement is reached about the events that have shaped the present and will remain dominant influences over the future. Baruch Kimmerling and Joel Migdal have moved in this direction with this account of the origins and history of the Palestinian people.

Ariel Sharons Innen- wie Außenpolitik zielt allein darauf ab, die Identität und Infrastruktur des palästinensischen Volkes zu vernichten. Der „Politizid“ läuft auf eine ethnische „Säuberung“ Israels von den Palästinensern hinaus. Dies weist der renommierte israelische Soziologe Baruch Kimmerling nach und fordert seine Landsleute zum zivilen Ungehorsam auf: Ohne Versöhnung zwischen Israel und den Palästinensern werde der jüdische Staat zu einer Fußnote in der Weltgeschichte.