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Israeli Polity and the European Powers during the 1950s: Democracy as a Tool in Fostering Bilateral Ties?

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Zouplna J.
West Bohemian Historical Review
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2019
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vol. 9
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issue 2
167-189
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Isolated in its immediate geopolitical environment, Israel started to approach the Western powers soon after its creation to request assistance of all kinds. One of the few arguments available to the Jewish state to persuade the West of its soundness as a partner was that of its adherence to parliamentary democracy. For much of the 1950s, Israeli leaders and diplomats did their best to present Israel abroad as a “real democracy” and an outpost of the free world in the Middle East. When addressing the Europeans, the Israelis were equally ready to display the socialist ethos behind their nation-building. Strategic reservations regarding any closer ties with the Jewish state were shared by all of the three Western diplomacies at the time. However, the British and the French were far more inclined to criticism concerning the nature of early Israeli polity. This ranged from the centralization of power in the hands of a closed political elite to the alleged intolerance of the general public as a whole.
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'STATE-FORMING ZIONISM' AND THE PRECEDNT FOR LEADERSHIP - T. HERZL, V. JABOTINSKY AND D. BEN-GURION

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Zouplna J.
Asian and African Studies
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2004
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vol. 13
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issue 1
28 - 61
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The three dominant Zionist politicians (Herzl, Jabotinsky and Ben-Gurion) differed significantly almost in all aspects. The ideological legacy left behind by Herzl was either largely ignored or freely interpreted. His stature as an inviolable symbol of the Zionist movement offered an additional outlet, however. V. Jabotinsky, by a self-declared adherence to this legacy, tried to justify and legitimise his own ostracised trend and turn it into a legal successor of Herzlian Zionism. The interpretation of Herzl he proposed was not left untouched by his own ideas that had not much in common with Herzl himself. Jabotinsky and Ben-Gurion are mostly perceived as major antagonists of the pre-state era. All three men shared, however, some similar viewpoints as well. Their preference of a common goal (defined either as a national, state or collective interest) over particularistic values and the authoritarian style of leadership combined with some democratic norms and values demonstrate clearly certain amount of affinity existing among them on issues that are in no way marginal.
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