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Israeli Democracy: Its Institutions And The Impact Of The 1948 Palestine War, Grant P L Goral
Israeli Democracy: Its Institutions And The Impact Of The 1948 Palestine War, Grant P L Goral
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This research project utilizes primary sources from diplomatic communiques, public speeches, political debates, and autobiographies of Israeli political elites in an attempt to better understand early Israeli democracy. Specifically, this project aims to frame this development of Israeli democracy and its institutions in the context of the 1948 Palestine War. The political elites of the Palestinian Jewish community who established the State of Israel came from various political, ethnic, religious, and linguistic backgrounds. This diversity in thought, combined with the threat of violence both within the new Israeli borders and outside of them, elevated the problem of creating a stable, …