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Introduction | |
The establishment of the Jewish state - The UN debates in 1947 | |
Israel's Declaration of Independence | |
The UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) report | |
The Partition debate in the UN General Assembly | |
The dilemmas of the right of national self-determination | |
The historic right and the historic connection | |
"An alien body in the Arab Middle East" | |
The validity of the principle of partition | |
Two arguments: Zionist "colonialism" and the "invention" of the Jewish national identity | |
Colonialism and imperialist support | |
"The hope of two thousand years"? Modern Jewish identity and the question of historical continuity | |
Zionism and international norms | |
Everything goes back to Herzl | |
The question of Arabs' rights in the Zionist thought | |
The Jewish state and the Israeli democracy | |
"The Jewish state" in the Israeli discourse | |
The Jewish state and the rights of the Arab minority | |
The Arabs in Israel as a national minority | |
"The Jewish state", "the state of the Jews", "the state of the Jewish people" | |
"Either Jewish or democratic"? | |
"Jewish and democratic state" - oxymoron? | |
The Law of Return and the international norms of civic equality | |
The Jewish state and the state of all its citizens | |
"The Jewish-Israeli people" and the right of self-determination | |
Israel and the Jewish Diaspora - a national or an ethnic connection? | |
"The Israeli people" - a national identity common to all the citizens of the state? | |
The "post-national state" | |
"The neutrality of the state" and the democratic nation-state | |
The principle of neutrality and the various types of democratic regimes | |
Partition and "neutrality" | |
The principle of neutrality, the Law of Return and the problem of Palestinian refugees | |
Two examples of partition: India and Ireland | |
"Imperial nations" - Britain and Spain | |
"Composite" identities, national identity and citizenship | |
"Ethnic democracy", "ethnic nationalism", "civic nationalism" | |
"Ethnic democracy" - Prof. Sami Samocha's model | |
Civic nationalism and cultural homogeneity - the French model | |
Civic nationalism - US and other examples | |
"Second-rate democracy"? Epilogue: No other country | |
Excerpts from constitutions of contemporary democratic countries | |
Nansen's speech before League of Nations on the need to support the repatriation of ethnic Armenians to the Armenian Soviet Republic | |
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