From the Book - First edition.
Introduction: a grand human story --
Poetry and politics: the Jewish nation seeks a home --
Some spot of a native land --
A conversation, not an ideology: Zionist divisions at the turn of the century --
From a dream to glimmers of reality --
The Balfour Declaration: the empire endorses the state --
Nowhere to go, even if they could leave --
The Yishuv resists the British, the Arabs battle partition --
Independence: the state is born --
From dreams of a state to the reality of statehood --
Israel enters the international arena --
Israel confronts the Holocaust --
Six days of war change a country forever --
The burden of occupation --
Yom Kippur War: the "conception" crashes --
Revolution within the revolution: the rise and revenge of Israel's political right --
Taking a page from the Zionists: the rise of Palestinian nationalism --
The peace process stalls --
A Jewish renaissance in the Jewish state --
Conclusion: a century after Balfour
"A national home for the Jewish people".
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