Zionism in Arab discourses

<p><i>Zionism in Arab discourses</i> presents a ground-breaking study of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Through analyses of hundreds of texts written by Arab Islamists and liberals from the late-nineteenth century to the 'Arab Spring' the book demonstrates that the Zionist enterprise has played a dual function of an enemy and a mentor. Islamists and liberals alike discovered respectively in Zionism and in Israeli society qualities they sought to implement in their sown homelands. <br><br>Focusing on Palestinian Egyptian Syrian and Jordanian political discourses this study uncovers fascinating and unexpected Arab points of views on different aspects of Zionism; from the first Zionist Congress to the First Lebanon War; from gardening in the early years of Tel Aviv to women's service in the Israeli Defence Forces; from the role of religion in the creation of the state to the role of democracy in its preservation.</p>