A Higher Road to Peace: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and the Battle for Judaism

This essay falls into three parts. The first part gives a brief characterization of the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict and makes some general remarks about peace and higher roads. The middle section argues for a version of Judaism in which being Jewish calls for doing justice. There is, however, a dif...

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Published in:	Peace and change Vol. 36; no. 4; pp. 527 - 540
Main Author:	Klug, Brian
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-10-2011
Subjects:	Arab Israeli relations Conflict Conflicts Identity Israel Jews Judaism Justice Loyalty Palestinian people Peace
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Summary:	This essay falls into three parts. The first part gives a brief characterization of the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict and makes some general remarks about peace and higher roads. The middle section argues for a version of Judaism in which being Jewish calls for doing justice. There is, however, a different take on Jewish identity today, one that privileges loyalty and allegiance to Israel, thought of as “the Jewish state,” over the pursuit of justice. This has led to a “battle for Judaism” among Jews, a battle being fought primarily over the Israeli‐Palestinian conflict. This battle—in its own way as fierce and as fateful as the conflict itself—is the subject of the third and final part of the essay.1
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ISSN:	0149-0508 1468-0130
DOI:	10.1111/j.1468-0130.2011.00717.x