New York Review of Books Volume 56, Number 11 · July 2, 2009
Amos Elon (1926-2009)
<<What had once been the nationalist ideology of a stateless people has
undergone a tragic transition. It has, for a growing number of Israelis,
been corrupted into an uncompromising ethno-religious real estate pact with
a partisan God, a pact that justifies any and all actions against real or
imagined thre…