FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: ISRAEL’S REPOSITIONING IN THE WORLD
中東レビュー
Volume 2
ABSTRACT
In
its
pioneer
years,
Israel
was
largely
associated
with
the
leftist
ideas
of
collective
endeavour
and
socialist
solidarity.
Early
Israeli
elites
often
came
from
the
kibbutz
and
were
vocal
in
their
allegiance
to
social
justice
and
equality.
This,
in
turn,
brought
them
admiration
and
support
from
socialists
around
the
world.
Few
noticed
that
while
praised
by
the
left,
Israeli
society
was
steadily
moving
to
right.
Nowadays
Israel
has
earned
the
admiration
of
the
right
and
the
extreme
right
in
most
Western
countries.
This
paper
should
explain
this
apparently
puzzling
transformation
in
the
international
position
of
this
small
country
in
Western
Asia.