Is the Fiction of the State of Israel a Safe Homeland or a Security-Minded Jewish State? Cover Image

İsrail’in Devlet Kurgusu Güvenli Bir Yahudi Yurdu mu? Yoksa Güvenlikçi Bir Yahudi Devleti mi?
Is the Fiction of the State of Israel a Safe Homeland or a Security-Minded Jewish State?

Author(s): Zafer Balpinar
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Jewish studies, Security and defense, Politics and religion
Published by: Atatürk Stratejik Araştırmalar Enstitüsü
Keywords: Israel; Security; Survival; State; Jews

Summary/Abstract: This study examines whether the Jewish state established in the name of the State of Israel has transformed from a search for a safe homeland to a security-minded Jewish state. In this frame, the infrastructure that includes the state’s constructional essence, the state’s inspiration, the state’s living space and the state’s social composition is set forth in a fashion of providing a ground for founding a state that will be safety guarantee of Jews. An analysis is conducted through this scope. The study is based on the ideas, decisions and actions of Jewish political and military elite under the active leadership of David Ben Gurion in the construction of the state fiction. Because the study focuses on the relationship between a historical survival aspiration that is shaped by the conflict environment and the nationalization progression, it covers the immediate before and after of the foundation of the state in which the basic parameters concerning the State of Israel are determined.

  • Issue Year: 13/2017
  • Issue No: 26
  • Page Range: 153-184
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: Turkish