Acknowledgements
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I thank The Israel Democracy Institute and the Rabin Center for Support which made this book possible. I also thank the Shalem Center for allowing me to use materials prepared and published in the Bernstein Lecture 2001 on: The Jewish state, Its Nature and Justification.
I thank The van Leer institute for commissioning the original lectures and publishing the Hebrew version.
I thank the Ze-ev Tadmor and Giyora Meyuhas of the
The Shalem Center encouraged me to think more of these subjects through the Bernstein lecture they invited me to give and the article it generated in Tchelet of August 2002 and Azure of April 2003.
I thank Yehuda Mirsky, Eugene Kantorowitz, Ariel Weiss, and for their comments and encouragement.
This book is a better one because of all their help. Responsibility with faults and mistakes lies with me alone.