{"id":45429,"date":"2025-03-21T14:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=45429"},"modified":"2025-03-21T14:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T14:56:09","slug":"saul-friedlander-diary-of-a-crisis-israel-in-turmoil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=45429","title":{"rendered":"Saul Friedl\u00e4nder, \u201eDiary of a Crisis: Israel in Turmoil\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Searching reflections on the crisis in Israel and Gaza by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Holocaust<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Diary of a Crisis<\/em> explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedl\u00e4nder began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests against Netanyahu\u2019s attempt to overhaul the judiciary. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against this threat to democracy. But the protests said nothing about the Palestinian question\u2014the &#8220;elephant in the room,&#8221; according to Friedl\u00e4nder, who resumed his diary after Hamas\u2019s 7 October assault on southern Israel. Israel was facing one of the worst crises in its history, he observes, under the worst possible internal conditions.<br><br>Friedl\u00e4nder weaves together profound reflections on a national history in which he has been an active participant. He describes how Prime Minister Golda Meir once flatly declared to him, &#8220;There is no Palestinian people.&#8221; For Friedl\u00e4nder, on the other hand, the fight for democracy is inseparable from equality of treatment for Arab and Jewish citizens and an end to Israeli domination over Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. He argues that despite the continuing bloodshed, a two-state solution remains the only long-term answer to this most intractable of conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>304 pages \/ September 2024 \/ 9781804296783<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/products\/3282-diary-of-a-crisis\">Diary of a Crisis<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Diary.webp?fit=430%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":52625,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=52625","url_meta":{"origin":45429,"position":0},"title":"Omer Bartov, \u201eIsrael: What Went Wrong?\u201c","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"23. travnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Omer Bartov was born on a kibbutz, grew up in Tel Aviv and served in the Israel Defence Forces during the Yom Kippur War. 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