Israel, the European Left and the Complexity of the Middle East
The reaction by the Left in Britain and France to the Arab Spring was one of both joy and opportunity in 2011, but had descended into a muffled and confused embarrassment by 2014. Yet this tentative alliance with Islamism mirrors past ideological mishaps such as a belief in Stalinism or the initial...
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| I publikationen: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/bcrfj, |
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| Materialtyp: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Språk: | Anglais |
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Bulletin du Centre de recherche français à Jérusalem
2014
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| Länkar: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Sammanfattning: | The reaction by the Left in Britain and France to the Arab Spring was one of both joy and opportunity in 2011, but had descended into a muffled and confused embarrassment by 2014. Yet this tentative alliance with Islamism mirrors past ideological mishaps such as a belief in Stalinism or the initial acceptance that World War II was essentially a war between rival imperialisms. This confusion in parts of the European Left is further mirrored by their historic lack of understanding of the complexity of the Israel-Palestine problem. |
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