The settlers : and the struggle over the meaning of Zionism / Gadi Taub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taub, Gadi.

Standardized Title:

Mitnaḥalim ṿeha-maʻavaḳ ʻal mashmaʻutah shel ha-Tsiyonut. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gush emunim (Israel).

Land settlement--West Bank.

Land settlement.

Israelis--West Bank.

Israelis.

Forced migration--Gaza Strip.

Forced migration.

Zionism.

Israel--Government policy--West Bank.

Israel.

Israel--Politics and government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (224 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Political Zionism

Religious Zionism: the politics of redemption

The watershed: from gush emunim to the Yesha council

The Rabin assassination

Disengagement

Conclusion: what next?.

Notes:

"Originally published as hamitnahalim ve hamaavak al mashmauta shel hatziyonut ... (Tel Aviv: Yediot Sfarim, 2007)"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780300168631

0300168632

OCLC:

806012532