Pretending Democracy: Israel, and Ethnocratic State
Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- About the contributors -- Frequently used acronyms and abbreviations -- INTRODUCTION: Pretending democracy, living ethnocracy -- Pretending democracy -- An ethnocratic state -- Living up to the reality -- Notes -- References -- PART ONE: Israel and its founding myths -- Chapter One - Racial purity and Jewish origins -- Zionism and heredity -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Two - Zionism, the founding fathers and the Palestine Arabs -- The two faces of Zionism -- Ze'ev Jabotinsky and the iron wall -- David Ben-Gurion and the shift in Zionist strategy -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- PART TWO: The ethnic state and its victims -- Chapter Three - Israel as an ethnic state: Descriptions, paradigms and prescriptions -- The Green Line paradigm -- The inevitable binational regime -- The regime which is (not) one -- The vision documents -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Four - Between colonialism and ethnocracy: 'Creeping apartheid' in Israel/Palestine -- A strategic shift? -- A new phase -- Ethnocracy and 'democracy' -- Colonial momentum -- Creeping apartheid' -- Ghettoised geography -- Beyond 'creeping apartheid'? -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Five - Israel through the prism of international law -- The ICJ's authority to give advisory opinions -- The ICJ's approach to advisory opinions -- The jurisdiction of the ICJ -- The definition of a 'legal question' -- Political questions -- The exercise of discretion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter Six - Reconciling history and equal citizenship in Israel: Democracy and the politics ofhistorical denial -- Reconciliation, addressing historic denial and citizenship -- Democracy and citizenship for Jews and Arabs in Israel -- The pitfalls of deliberating the future without addressing historic denial