The Labor Party and the Peace Camp

The breakdown into rival political camps in Israel in the early days of the state was very different from now, revolving, among other things, around the tensions between the socialist and liberal camps and the country’s positioning vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. The Zionist left parties, i.e. the “workers’ camp”, considered the liberal parties as their chief ideological rivals rather than the proponents of a “greater Israel”. This essay reviews the history of the Israeli Labor Party and its relationship with the country’s peace camp.