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Zionism was inspired as a movement--one driven by the search for a homeland for the stateless and persecuted Jewish people. Yet it trampled the rights of the Arabs in Palestine. Today it has become so controversial that it defies understanding and trumps reasoned public debate. So argues prominent British writer Jacqueline Rose, who uses her political and psychoanalytic skills in this book to take an unprecedented look at Zionism--one of the most powerful ideologies of modern times. Rose enters the inner world of the movement and asks a new set of questions. How did Zionism take shape as an identity? And why does it seem so immutable? Analyzing the messianic fervor of Zionism, she argues that it colors Israel's most profound self-image to this day. Rose also explores the message of dissidents, who, while believing themselves the true Zionists, warned at the outset against the dangers of statehood for the Jewish people. She suggests that these dissidents were prescient in their recognition of the legitimate claims of the Palestinian Arabs. In fact, she writes, their thinking holds the knowledge the Jewish state needs today in order to transform itself. In perhaps the most provocative part of her analysis, Rose proposes that the link between the Holocaust and the founding of the Jewish state, so often used to justify Israel's policies, needs to be rethought in terms of the shame felt by the first leaders of the nation toward their own European history. For anyone concerned with the conflict in Israel-Palestine, this timely book offers a unique understanding of Zionism as an unavoidable psychic and historical force.

Ehud Yatom, a former high-ranking officer in the Shin Bet domestic security agency, said Tuesday that he was instructed by then-Shin Bet chief Avraham Shalom to kill the men.

The Council of Jewish Communities in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip cautioned [Avi Dichter] to temper his allegations \"lest the Shin Bet become a tool of the settlement endeavor's opponents.\" If there is a real threat, the Shin Bet must act immediately, said the council in a statement, adding, \"but talk in the Knesset will stop no assassin.\" According to Dichter, the Shin Bet has identified most of those involved in the anti-[Ariel Sharon] incitement but lacks the intelligence information to prosecute them. He pointed an accusatory finger at the \"hilltop youth,\" a fringe group of West Bank youth imbued with radical ideology. But he tempered his charges, saying that some of the \"hilltop youth\" disapprove of the radicalization of anti- Sharon incitement. When Dichter was asked whether the Shin Bet could put the suspected Jewish terror supporters in administrative detention, he answered in the negative. MK Haim Ramon (Labor) then pounced: \"What if they were Palestinians? Would they then be detained?\" Dichter replied, \"Absolutely,\" but would not elaborate.

The Gatekeepers In a journalistic coup, documentarían Dror Moreh gets all the living former heads of Shin Bet, Israel's secret service, to speak candidly about the agency and Israeli foreign...

Was it \"severe\" or \"moderate\" to keep Mustafa Abdallah Akawi, in his mid-thirties, sitting for hours in a freezing corridor of the Hebron prison with his hands cuffed behind his back and a sack over his head? Were the bruises on his chest caused by the interrogator grabbing him and shaking him back and forth \"serious\" or \"moderate?\" \"The cause of death was a heart attack,\" says Susannah Sirkin, associate director of the Boston-based Physicians for Human Rights. \"The manner of death was something else. In the U.S., this would have been considered a homicide and would have prompted an immediate independent investigation.\" \"The thing that's disturbing,\" Sirkin said, \"is that this is not an isolated case. Palestinian prisoners are routinely subjected to such treatment.\"

Mossad is responsible for [Foreign intelligence; Political intelligence; Counterterrorism] focused on [Egypt; United Nations]; U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Counterintelligence Staff reports on [Organization and functions; Organizational structures; Training; Security clearances; Management; Government officials] of the [Mossad; Shin Bet] and the Israel Defense intelligence community