POL 388 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Israeli Labor Party, Tzipi Livni, Labor Zionism
23 Sep 2018
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A lot of countries analyzing the way israel developed, how a country was founded on strong ideology that has grown over time to become less. For example, countries looking at transition from marxism look to israel for example of changing without losing sense of purpose. Mapai (israel labor party) which is the principal partner in the 3 dominant coalitions in. Israel: the government, the executive of the jewish agency, the executive committee of the histadrut (labor union in israel, pre-1948 origins) Jews had to figure out how to make their population into a state, think in political terms. Jews had rarely been political actors in past (minorities, excluded, victims, etc. ), so had to figure things out: every political system is embedded in a particular pattern of orientations to political action; politics reflect the group, said "masada must not fall again! Israel politics dominated by parties, specifically the labor party.
