TY - BOOK ID - 138684625 TI - Religious Zionism and the settlement project AU - Hellinger, Moshe AU - Hershkowitz, Isaac AU - Susser, Bernard PY - 2018 SN - 1438468407 9781438468402 9781438468396 PB - Albany DB - UniCat KW - Religious Zionism KW - Religious Zionists KW - Land settlement KW - Israelis KW - Democracy KW - History. KW - Attitudes. KW - Political aspects KW - Colonization KW - Religious aspects KW - Judaism. KW - Gaza Strip KW - West Bank KW - Ethnic relations. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:138684625 AB - An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s. The Jewish settlements in disputed territories are among the most contentious issues in Israeli and international politics. This book delves into the ideological and rabbinic discourses of the religious Zionists who founded the settlement movement and lead it to this day. Based on Hebrew primary sources seldom available to scholars and the public, Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, and Bernard Susser provide an authoritative history of the settlement project. They examine the first attempts at settling in the 1970s, the evacuation of Sinai in the 1980s, the Oslo Accords and assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s, and the withdrawal from Gaza and the reaction of radical settler groups in the 2000s. The authors question why the evacuation of settlements led to largely theatrical opposition, without mass violence or civil war. They show that for religious Zionists, a "theological-normative balance" undermined their will to resist aggressively because of a deep veneration for the state as the sacred vehicle of redemption. ER -