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The fecundity of the Zionist project in producing claims of exceptionalism is not in doubt. Anyone who scans the voluminous Zionist literature will be suitably impressed by its repeated resort to claims of Jewish and Israeli exceptionalism. There is scarcely any aspect of Israeli or Jewish history that has not been embellished with some claim to uniqueness.
We do not fit the general pattern of humanity.
—David Ben-Gurion
Only God could have created a people so special as the Jewish people.
—Gideon Ezra1
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© 2009 M. Shahid Alam
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Alam, M.S. (2009). Sources of Exceptionalism. In: Israeli Exceptionalism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101371_2
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