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sensed all Jews, that Israeli Zionism and the Zionism of
Theodor Herzl had different interests.
In Segev's definition, post-Zionism "means that Zionism
has done its job, with notable success, and that Israel must
now move on to the next stage."
The term is sometimes used as a slur to denounce those
who support compromises in the Arab-Israeli conflict.
"Theodor Herzl's statue at the entrance to the city that
bears his name looks out over an array of tall glass-and-steel
office buildings," Segev writes. "... Herzilya has fancy stores
and exclusive restaurants of the kind that Herzl himself
the current situation in the Middle East, but several
new books about Israel, each in an indirect way,
offer important insights into the conflict.
Last month was the 35th anniversary of the 132 hours
that changed Middle East history: the Six-Day War, as it is
known in Israel and the West; the June war or "the set-
back," as it is known in the Arab world.
In Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of
the Modern Middle East (Oxford; $30), Michael B.
Oren uses previously classified material to shed much
new light on that war and its far-reaching effects.
Oren's goal is to assure that the war will "never be
seen in the same way again."
A senior fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem,
Oreii served as director of Israel's Department of Inter-
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Religious Affairs in the government of the late Prime
POST.ZIONISM AND THE
JUNE 1967 AND THE MAKING OF
AMERICANIZATION fa• ISRAEL
Minister Yitzhak Rabin and as an adviser to the Israeli
THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST
delegation to the United Nations. Raised in New
MICHAEL& OREN
Jersey, he earned a Ph.D. in Middle East Studies from
Princeton University
Oren's account is scholarly, penetrating and well writ-
ten; it makes for compelling reading. Drawing on doc-
uments from the United States, Great Britain and Israel
as well as materials in Russian and Arabic, he analyzes
in detail the context of the war, its catalysts, crises and
countdown to war. He then provides a day-by-day
account of military and political developments.
Many of the participants in those turbulent times, such
craved. The stores have names like Tophouse, Columbus
as Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat, still are key figures today.
Oren shows how the end of the Six-Day War left the area and Beverly Hills, and there's a McDonald's as well.
"It's all in the spirit of the American century that Herzl
ripe for what today's Israelis refer to as "the situation."
'Along with opportunities for peace, the June war opened heralded, including the Mizra Delicatessen, which sells
pork-based cold cuts produced by a northern kibbutz."
. the door to even deadlier conflagrations," Oren writes.
Herzl would have been thrilled with today's
"Basic truths persisted: For all its military conquests, Israel
Americanization of Israel, Segev writes.
was still incapable of imposing the peace it craved.
"In many ways, in fact, Herzl was the first post-Zionist."
"Though roundly defeated, the Arabs could still mount a
formidable military campaign. The status of territories could be
negotiated but the essential issues — Israel's right to exist, the
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demand for Palestinian repatriation and statehood — remained."
Journalist Judy Lash Balint provides a sense of what daily
life is like for Israelis these days in Jerusalem Diaries: In
If You Will It
Tense Times (Gefen; $16.95).
In a series of first-person accounts covering the period
The back-cover photo of Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism
from
November 1998 through the end of 2001, she writes
and the Americanization of Israel by Tom Segev
of the challenges of living between terror attacks, the sense
(Metropolitan; $23) shows a camel kneeling in front of a
of being "in the shadow of death" and the normalcy and
mural featuring life-size images of Elvis Presley.
joys of family and community.
Inside is a provocative and elegant essay about shifts and trans-
The pieces are both personal and political, written with a
formations in Israeli society and the perceptions of Zionism.
sense of immediacy.
Segev, a columnist for the Israeli daily HaAre' tz and the
A senior correspondent for the online Middle East news
award-winning author of One Palestine, Complete and other
The Media Line, Balint has written for HaAretz, the
service
books, views the Americanization of Israel — the shopping
Jerusalem
Post, Forward and other newspapers, both in
malls, fast food outlets and music — as a positive and
Israel and the United States.
important influence because it also includes values of toler-
"To live in Jerusalem is to live center-stage in Jewish his-
ance, pragmatism and individualism.
tory," she writes in Jerusalem Diaries.
• He explains that the Zionist movement has never repre-
SIX DAYS
of WAR
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