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Mapam vs. Mapai: Issues of Foreign Policy Orientation and Social Form of the State Israel, 1947-1954
Benešová, Veronika ; Zouplna, Jan (advisor) ; Boušek, Daniel (referee)
The present thesis deals with the attitudes of two Israeli left-wing parties, Mapaj and Mapam, to the conflict between East and West between 1947 and 1954. As both of these parties had socialist roots, the main emphasis is on their relationships with the communist bloc. After presenting the general historical context against which these parties formulated their positions, their relationships with USSR and the socialist world are compared. Regarding Mapaj, the thesis follows its gradual abandonment of the policy of non-alignment to adopting openly pro-Western positions. Concerning the pro-soviet-oriented Mapam, which in the mentioned period was one of the main opposition parties, the thesis focuses both on the inter-party conflict with Mapaj and on the increasing tensions between the party's factions. These phenomena are illustrated by examples of specific foreign political issues that the newly created state had to deal with. Special attention is paid to the Prague trials affair which marked one of the peaks of the dispute between the two parties and pointed to a strong ideological discrepancy inside Mapam
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