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Jewish settlement in the West Bank : the role of Gush Emunim
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Year: 1982 Publisher: Durham (N.C.) : University of Durham. Centre for Middle Eastern and Islamic studies,

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The settlers : and the struggle over the meaning of Zionism
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ISBN: 0300168632 Year: 2010 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press,

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The controversy over settlements in the occupied territories is a far more intractable problem for Israel than is widely perceived, Gadi Taub observes in this illuminating book. The clash over settlement is no mere policy disagreement, he maintains, but rather a struggle over the very meaning of Zionism. The book presents an absorbing study of religious settlers' ideology and how it has evolved in response to Israel's history of wars, peace efforts, assassination, the pull-out from Gaza, and other tumultuous events.Taub tracks the efforts of religious settlers to reconcile with mainstream Zionism but concludes that the project cannot succeed. A new Zionist consensus recognizes that Israel must pull out of the occupied territories or face an unacceptable alternative: the dissolution of Israel into a binational state with a Jewish minority.


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Messianic religious Zionism confronts Israeli territorial compromises
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ISBN: 9781139525862 1139525867 1139530534 9781139530538 9780511920530 0511920539 9781107009127 110700912X 9781107673359 1139539876 1107234506 1283521938 1139527061 9786613834386 1139531727 1139528254 1107673356 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Six Day War in 1967 profoundly influenced how an increasing number of religious Zionists saw Israeli victory as the manifestation of God's desire to redeem God's people. Thousands of religious Israelis joined the Gush Emunim movement in 1974 to create settlements in territories occupied in the war. However, over time, the Israeli government decided to return territory to Palestinian or Arab control. This was perceived among religious Zionist circles as a violation of God's order. The peak of this process came with the Disengagement Plan in 2005, in which Israel demolished all the settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank. This process raised difficult theological questions among religious Zionists. This book explores the internal mechanism applied by a group of religious Zionist rabbis in response to their profound disillusionment with the state, reflected in an increase in religious radicalization due to the need to cope with the feelings of religious and messianic failure.

Interest groups and political change in Israel
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ISBN: 0585063222 9780585063225 079140207X 9780791402078 0791402088 9780791402085 9781438401553 1438401558 9781438401553 Year: 1990 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press

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