POLS 3490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Jordan River, Six-Day War, Dreyfus Affair
7 Dec 2016
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Lecture 19: conflict management by way of diversity of nation states ii. Judt does not deny that europe"s empires have broken down and that each group dreamed of having their own state. Everyone has a multitude of identities and this is modernity. This new world is a world of individual rights, open frontiers, and international law. It is out of date and non-democratic to have non-multiethnic states. Dennis ross writes: for the israelis, their national movement, zionism, is a natural response to the tragedies of jewish history. It meant creating a homeland for the jews that could be a safe haven. [events such as the dreyfus affair convinced early zionists] that there was no hope for assimilation of jews in their host countries: the only answer was jewish sovereignty. [from this perspective] jews could never be secure without a state of their own . Israel was created by the brits in 1947.
