{"product_id":"9781885881397","title":"A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic","description":"Is there an Israeli nation? How is it related to the historical \"Jewish People\"? How is it related to the Zionist movement? Under what conditions could non-Jews become equal members of this nation? These and other questions stand at the center of the Moshe Berent's \"A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic\".\u003cp\u003eThe mission of the Zionist movement was to work toward the normalization of Jewish existence: to become \"a nation like all nations.\" Israel, contrary to that aspiration, is not a normal nation-state, since according to the formal national ethos it belongs to the \"Jewish people\" and there is no recognized Israeli nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDr. Berent asserts that the fusion of nationality and religion, together with the absence of a normal nation-state are the source of Israel's basic problems and are responsible for Israel's powerlessness to solve problems - i.e. the status of religion in public life; The relations between seculars and religious; the status of non-Jews, especially Arabs; the absence of a constitution; the inability to agree about borders, or to decide about peace and war. \"A Nation Like All Nations: Towards the Establishment of an Israeli Republic\" makes the case that a separation between nationality and religion, the recognition in the existence of an Israeli nation, and the establishment of Israel as a republic - as the State of the Israeli nation is a pre-condition for finding the solution of all of these problems.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Israel Academic Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039123652848,"sku":"9781885881397","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781885881397_p0.jpg?v=1763606576","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781885881397","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}