Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914

University of California Press
University of California Press
9780520204010
0-520-20401-8

Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was.

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not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.