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…