Debate & Discussion: Social revolution in Israel?
I believe David Merhav (letters, Solidarity 3/75) when he says that victory for Amir Peretz in the contest for leader of the Israeli Labour Party would be better than victory for Shimon Peres. However, David’s claim that Peretz’s leadership “can become a true source for social revolution in Israel... socialist transformation of Israeli society” seems way out to me. In the past we have regarded the Israeli Labour Party as not even a bourgeois workers’ party on the model of the old Labour Party in Britain, because it was the chosen party of the majority of the Israeli upper class, and the...