What happens when a falling birthrate collides with uncontrolled immigration? The Last Days of Europe explores how a massive influx from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East has loaded Europe with a burgeoning population of immigrants, many of whom have no wish to be integrated into European societies but make full use of the host nations’ generous free social services. According to a poll in 2005, more than 40 percent of British Muslims said Jews were a legitimate target for terrorist attacks.Half of all female scientists in Germany are childless.In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the children born were of immigrant parents.In Brussels in 2004, more than 55 percent of the ch.).
The Last Days of Europe: Epitaph for an Old Continent Laqueur’s new preface analyzes the present-day difficulties, and places them into a fascinating and aluable historical context. He concluded with a dramatic account of the cataclysmic events of World War II, the clandestine immigration of Holocaust survivors, the tragic missed opportunities co-existence with both the Arab residents of Palestine and those in the surrounding countries, and the struggle to forge a new state on an ancient land. Laqueur outlines the differences between the various Zionist philosophies of the early twentieth century-socialist, Communist, revisionist, and cultural utopian-and he discusses both the religious and secular Jewish critics of the movement. He describes the contributions of such notable figures as Benjamin Disraeli, Moses Hess, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, and Sir Herbert Samuel, and he analyzes the seminal achievements of Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weitzmann, and David Ben Gurion. Walter Laqueur traces Zionism from its beginnings-with the emancipation of European Jewry from the ghettos in the wake of the French Revolution-to 1948, when the Zionist dream became a reality. The definitive general history of the Zionist movement, by one of the most distinguished historians of our time. (The definitive general history of the Zionist movement, b.) A History of Zionism: From the French Revolution to the Establishment of the State of Israel