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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Disobedience: Liberal and Religious Zionist
2. The Discourse of Disobedience in Religious Zionism: From Gush Emunim to the Jewish Underground (1974–1984)
3. From the Beginning of the Oslo Process until Rabin’s Assassination (1993–1995)
4. The “Disengagement” from Gaza/Gush Katif (2005)
5. From the Clash at Amona (2006) to the Price Tag Gangs (2008–2016)
Conclusions
Appendices
References
Index
Über den Autor
Moshe Hellinger is Senior Lecturer in Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Isaac Hershkowitz is Lecturer in Jewish Thought at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
Bernard Susser is Emeritus Professor of Politics at Bar-Ilan University, Israel, formerly the Norman Patterson Professor of Politics
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