Nur Masalha 
Imperial Israel and the Palestinians [PDF ebook] 
The Politics of Expansion

This book is a history of Israel’s expansionist policies, focusing on the period from the June War of 1967 to the present day. He demonstrates that imperialist tendencies in Israel run the political gamut, from Left to Right.



Masalha argues that the heart of the conflict between Zionist immigrants/settlers and the native Palestinians has always been about land, territory, demography and water. He documents how Israeli policy has made it a priority to expel the Palestinians, either by war or peaceful measures. But these imperialist tendencies are not restricted to extremist zealots. The author uncovers the expansionist policies found in Labour Zionism and Kookist ideology.



Chapters cover the Whole Land of Israel Movement, Zionist Revisionism and the Likud Party, Gush Emunim and the religious fundamentalists, parties and movements of the far right and the evolution of Israeli Jewish public attitudes since 1967.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Labour Zionism’s ‘Activists’: New Territorial Maximalism and the Whole Land of Israel Movement, 1967-1977

2. Zionist Revisionism and the Likud: From Jabotinsky to Netanyahu

Jabotinsky’s Legacy

Proposals of Jabotinsky’s Disciples

The Post-1967 Period

The Likud in Power

Netanyahu and the Oslo Process

3. Jewish Fundamentalism, Greater Israel and the Palestinians: Gush Emunim, Settlement and Nationalist-Religious Messianic Trend

The Politics of Amalek

Proposals of Fundamentalist Academics:

Other Racist Groups

4. The Secular Ultranationalists: Parties and Movements of the Far Right

5. The Public Opinion Debate

Evolving Jewish Attitudes, the Palestinians and Greater Israel

The ‘Demographic Threat’ Debate

Sammy Smooha’s Attitudinal Data

The Impact of the ‘Peace Process’

Epilogue

Select Bibliography

Index

关于作者

Nur Masalha is Palestinian Historian and Director of the Centre for Religion and History at St. Mary’s University. He is the author of many books on Palestine-Israel, including The Palestine Nakba (Zed, 2014), The Politics of Denial (Pluto Press, 2003) and Imperial Israel and the Palestinians (Pluto Press, 2000).