Ilan Peleg & Dov Waxman, Israel's Palestinians: The Conflict Within (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press, 2011) ("Arguing that a comprehensive and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict depends on a resolution of the Jewish-Palestinian conflict within Israel as much as it does on resolving the conflict between Israel and Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, this timely book explores the causes and consequences of the growing conflict between Israel's Jewish majority and its Palestinian-Arab minority. It warns that if Jewish-Arab relations in Israel continue to deteriorate, this will pose a serious threat to the stability of Israel, to the quality of Israeli democracy, and to the potential for peace in the Middle East. The book examines the views and attitudes of both the Palestinian minority and the Jewish majority, as well as the Israeli state's historic approach to its Arab citizens. Drawing on the experience of other states with national minorities, the authors put forward specific proposals for safeguarding and enhancing the rights of the Palestinian minority while maintaining the country's Jewish identity." Id. at i.).
Dov Waxman, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel (Princeton & Oxford: Princeton U. Press, 2016) ("This book offers an in-depth look at the internecine battle over Israel among American Jews, a battle that is growing ever more intense as Israel faces mounting international condemnation, its domestic politics shifts further to the right, the Israeli-Palestinian peace-process remains in deep freeze, and the two-state solution appears increasingly remote, if not altogether unlikely. The book's central thesis is that a historic change has been taking place in the American Jewish relationship with Israel. The age of unquestioning and unstinting support for Israel is over. The pro-Israel consensus that once united American Jews is eroding, and Israel is fast becoming a source of a division rather than unity for American Jewry. As the consensus concerning Israel within the American Jewish community is slowing coming apart, a new era of American Jewish conflict over Israel is replacing the old era of solidarity. In short, Israel used to bring American Jews together. Now it is driving them apart." Id. at 3.).
Alan Wolfe, At Home in Exile: Why Diaspora Is Good for the Jews (Boston: Beacon Press, 2014) ("One question majorities rarely have to answer seems to preoccupy minorities endlessly--what to do about assimilation? To blend in with everyone else threatens to obliterate all those features that make a minority distinctive. To opt for separation is to choose a certain degree of alienation, cutting oneself (and one's group) off form the dominant culture. Because Jews have lived in the Diaspora for so long, they have debated the question of assimilation more thoroughly than most. The creation of a Jewish state has not changed matters all that much. If anything, the existence of a Jewish majority in one place make the question of how best to live as a minority everywhere else all the more compelling." Id. at 131.).
