Kimmerling is a political science with an agenda.For many years he has been a firm supporter of Palestinian Arab nationalism, and his writings continually work to undermine the state of Israel, and especially its Jewish character. In this work he ignores those researches which point to the fact that the overwhelming majority of Israel's citizens share basic values, as to the Jewish and democratic character of the state and tries to argue that Israel is falling apart into seven different socio- ethnic tribal groups.
The real point is that Kimmerling aims at helping produce the disintegration he is claiming exists.
My suspicion however is that the state of Israel will be thriving long after Mr.Kimmerling is no longer available to deliver us his awkwardly written distortions.