This book explores the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought in two different periods: the British mandate (1920-1948), and the years 1967-1992 in the State of Israel. The central issue in this research is to show the search for the establishment of some bi-national Jewish-Arab coexistence in Mandatory Palestine and later in the State of Israel.

Yosef Gorny, Ph.D. (1970) in history, Tel-Aviv University, is Professor of Modern Jewish History at Tel-Aviv University. He has published extensively on the history of Zionism, Jewish-Arab relations, the State of Israel and the Jewish diaspora. His recent most recent book is Converging Alternatives: The Bund and the Zionist Labor Movement, 1897-1985 (SUNY Press, 2006).