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California Press, which has loads of great titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.

One that you might like is War Over Peace, 100 years of Israel's militaristic nationalism by Uri Ben Eliezer.

Violence in war have raged between Zionists and Palestinians for over a century,

ever since Zionists trying to establish a nation-state in Palestine,

were forced to confront the fact that the country was already populated.

Covering every conflict in Israel's history, war over peace reveals that Israeli nationalism

was born ethnic and militaristic and has embraced these characteristics to this day.

In his sweeping and original synthesis, Uri Ben-Elyzer shows that this

militaristic nationalism systematically drives Israel to find military solutions for its national

problems, based on the idea that the homeland is sacred and the territory is indivisible.

When Israelis opposed to this ideology brought about change during a period that led to the Oslo Accords in the 1990s, cultural and

political forces, reinforced by religious and messianic elements, prevented the implementation

of the agreements, which brought violence back in the form of new wars.

War over peace is a central reading for anyone who wants to understand the role of ethnic nationalism

and militarism in Israel as well as throughout the world.

War over peace, 100 years of Israel's militaristic nationalism by Uri Ben

Elyzer. Out now from University of California Press.

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