Title:
FROM HISTORIOGRAPHY TO ARCHEOLOGY: THE DIALECTICS OF ISRAELI POLITY

Authors:
Dr. Gabriel Mayer

Volume:1 Issue: 9

Abstract:
This article explores the history of political maturation in Israel. Various indigenous people, mainly Arabs, Jews and what was left of the populace from the various crusades, were present in a sparsely populated and Ottoman ruled Palestine, at the turn of the 20th century. In the late 1800s a new group was making in-roads as European Jews chose to turn to their biblical homeland and began arriving as settlers, mainly seeking agricultural sustenance and, for the most part, bolstered by beneficent philanthropists. Many of the settlements were social experiments and destined to fail, but some continued and prospered. By the early 1900s their numbers grew and European migration, under the influence of political and utopian enterprises, most notable of which was the dream of Theodore Herzl for a Jewish homeland, increased exponentially. These numbers were bolstered by increasingly virulent anti-semitism, and groups, known as Aliyot, were now succeeding on the farms, in the commercial and trade crafts and increasingly appearing in cities as well. By the 1920s under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion, who arrived in Palestine in 1906, serious nation building aspirations were unfolding. As social structuring demanded, political and social groups ranging from capitalism to socialism appeared and organized. The article then continues to trace the development of statehood, the birth of the independent nation of Israel in 1948 and the political system as it evolved into present day eventuality.

Citation:

[Mayer, Gabriel. "FROM HISTORIOGRAPHY TO ARCHEOLOGY: THE DIALECTICS OF ISRAELI POLITY." IJAH, vol. 1, no. 9, 2017, pp. 700-706. October.]