Abba A. Solomon is the author of 'The Miasma of Unity: Jews and Israel' and 'The Speech, and Its Context: Jacob Blaustein's Speech ‘The Meaning of Palestine Partition to American Jews,' Given to the Baltimore Chapter, American Jewish Committee, February 15, 1948.
The dominant self-conception of the Jewish story is innocence, repeated persecutions, and then redemption by creation of the Jewish nationalist State of Israel . This narrative is critically examined in Peter Beinart's new book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza : A Reckoning.
' Most of the population of Gaza was made homeless, huddled in improvised shelters, pushed by IDF warnings from one 'safe zone' to another, often then bombed. Beinart's book is an analysis of Zionist apologetics that are necessary to both regard oneself as moral and defend what Israel has done, from the 1947-49 Nakba—terroristic expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their communities within present-day Israel—to Gaza in 2025.
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