| Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche Contributor(s): Neslen, Arthur (Author) |
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ISBN: 0745323669 ISBN-13: 9780745323664 Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) OUR PRICE: $113.85 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2006 Annotation: Illustrated interviews with Israelis, offering a unique insight into the diversity and contradictions of Israeli identity. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Freedom - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine |
| Dewey: 305.892 |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 5.96" W x 8.36" (1.34 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Israel's founders sought to create a nation of new Jews who would never again go meekly to the death camps. Yet Israel's strength has become synonymous with an oppression of the Palestinians that provokes anger throughout the Muslim world and beyond. How are Israelis able to see themselves as victims while victimizing others? What does Israeli Jewish identity mean today? Arthur Neslen explores the dynamics, distortions and incredible diversity of Israeli society. From the mouths of soldiers, settlers, sex workers and the victims of suicide attacks, Occupied Minds is the story of a national psyche that has become scarred by mental security barriers, emotional checkpoints and displaced outposts of self-righteousness and aggression. From vignettes to in-depth interviews, more than fifty Israelis offer their accounts. What they reveal is in turn powerful, haunting, subtle and disturbing. Illustrated throughout with photographs, this unique book offers an unrivalled insight into Israeli consciousness, private and public. It charts the evolution of a communal self-image based on cultural and religious values towards one formed around a single militaristic imperative: national security. |