Israeli Politics

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This paper discusses that the peculiar social structure and the fact that the Jews have a separate identity from the rest of the nations have molded the national character of Israel. The author points out that the fact that the country does not have a written constitution was a deliberate attempt to wrest some amount of bargaining power from all the sub-political groups in the country and automatically led to localized power centers within the central government. The paper relates that the coherence and the sense of purpose, which resonated in the political ideologies of the Israeli political parties during the 1950s or the 1960s, are absent in the new breed of politicians, who have been accused of corruption, favoritism, and lack of drive in the international affairs.

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"The unity in diversity was required by the Jews to exist in the face of the large-scale persecutions mounted against them through the years. However, it is possible that the community feeling, which was a strong binding force of the Jews and which often dominated the inherent differences in the community, could have given way to open resentment once the Jews had a country of their own and when repeated assaults against them by the Arab nations proved futile. The amount of self-confidence that was bestowed upon them by the successes in the war could have been a great motivating factor that perhaps encouraged them to express openly dissent at existing political parties and their objectives."

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