Zionism and Judaism: a new theory

1. Why Zionism?

Introduction

Political rhetoric

Psychological motivation

Jewish celebration/Jewish commemoration

Reasons of the commandments

Four kinds of Jews

Four kinds of non-Jews

2. Was Spinoza the first Zionist?

Ben-Gurion and Spinoza

Spinzoa's inversions of classical Jewish theology

The Proto-Zionists statement

Spinoza's Old-New Judaism

Spinoza and the Zionist dilemma

3. Secular Zionism: Political or cultural?

Secular zionism

Political zionism

Cultural zionism

Hebrew jurisprudence

4. Should Israel be a theocracy?

What is theocracy?

The primacy of theology

5. Why the Jews and why the land of Israel?

God chooses Israel

God chooses the land of Israel

6. Can the state of Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

Jewish religion and secular law

The problem with current Israeli secularism

Principled agreement

Whose democracy?

Divinely sanctioned secularity

Authentic Jewish secularity

The commandment to acquire and settle the land

A communal obligation

Human volition

7. What could be the status of non-Jews in a Jewish state?

Rethinking the status of non-Jews

The resident-alien

The equalization of civil rights

Potential Jews

Non-Jewish autonomy

Right and might

8. What is the connection between the Holocaust and the state of Israel?

Historical and political sequences

Holocaust theologies

Messianic theologies

Theory and Praxis

Another Messianism.