This review presents ideas from a recently published book by Naftali Golomb. It is yet one more Israeli joining the chorus of criticism against the direction Zionism and Israel have taken.
“The current book poses another question, and causes one to wonder whether Zionism – as it is interpreted and applied today by Israel, which has not yet updated the formative ideology that was to answer problems that were facing the Jewish people 100 years ago and more – is at all able to achieve peace with the Palestinians. If Motti Golani, in his book “Milhamot Lo Korot Miatzmun” (“Wars Don’t Just Happen” Modan, 2002) leads to the conclusion that Zionism is a movement, at the foundation of which is the need, with no connection to Israel’s national interest, to fight and expand borders – Golomb’s answers take us one step further. They lead to a possible conclusion that at the basis of Zionism is the need to frighten those surrounding us and to transfer the neighbors in whose midst we live – again, with no connection to the essential interests of the State of Israel. According to Golomb, the current policy is liable to lead to a situation of perpetual war that will ultimately lead to the end of Zionism and of the state.”
