Those who saw or heard Prof. Jacqueline Rose on the ABC on either Lateline or Phillip Adams' Late Night Live the other day could have been other than impressed by her sober and clearly articulated response to the searching matters raised by the interviewers in relation to her recently published book The Question of Zion [MUP in Australia]. Anyone interested in an extremely well documented and researched book on the issues surrounding Zionism and the establishment of Israel - and how that plays out today - really should read this book. Perhaps the author does tend to err on the side of too much psychoanalysis, one of the author's specialities, but that does not detract from the overall impact and compelling arguments raised in the book.
No doubt the usual suspects will attack the author and the book. Those attackers will not have read the book - hey, why let a minor matter like the facts stand in the way of an attack? - and will be the poorer and even more ignorant for not having done so. As a Jewess obviously concerned about how Zionism impacts on the issues now confronting Israel Prof. Rose tackles the very critical issue of how Israelis view and confront [assuming they even do] the rights of Arabs in Israel and Palestinians outside Israel's borders.
The greater the debate about the Israel-Palestinian conflict so much more the hope that calm and rational discussion, and subsequent action, might see at least some sort of resolution of the seemingly intractable problems which are ongoing on a daily basis.
No doubt the usual suspects will attack the author and the book. Those attackers will not have read the book - hey, why let a minor matter like the facts stand in the way of an attack? - and will be the poorer and even more ignorant for not having done so. As a Jewess obviously concerned about how Zionism impacts on the issues now confronting Israel Prof. Rose tackles the very critical issue of how Israelis view and confront [assuming they even do] the rights of Arabs in Israel and Palestinians outside Israel's borders.
The greater the debate about the Israel-Palestinian conflict so much more the hope that calm and rational discussion, and subsequent action, might see at least some sort of resolution of the seemingly intractable problems which are ongoing on a daily basis.
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