Messianic religious Zionism confronts Israeli territorial compromises / Motti Inbari.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Inbari, Motti, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gush emunim (Israel).

Religious Zionists--Political activity--West Bank.

Religious Zionists.

Israelis--Political activity--West Bank.

Israelis.

Israelis--Colonization--West Bank--History.

Jews--West Bank--Politics and government--21st century.

Jews.

Jews--Colonization--West Bank--History.

Land settlement--West Bank.

Land settlement.

Religion and state--Israel.

Religion and state.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 204 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Historical Background to Messianic Religious Zionism; Gush Emunim; Cognitive Dissonance; Testing Festinger's Thesis; Religious Fundamentalism; Other Publications Written on the Subject; Structure of the Book; 1: Zionist Perceptions in the Thought of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and the Roots of Gush Emunim; Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook: A Biographical Sketch and Its Significance for the Future Establishment of Gush Emunim

Development of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook's Religious Identity: The Early StageZvi Yehuda Kook and the Establishment of Gush Emunim; Conclusion; 2: Gush Emunim and the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Agreement; Consolidation of the Statist Camp Prior to the Withdrawal; Emergence of the Post-Statist Camp Prior to the Withdrawal; Campaign Against the Withdrawal and the Autonomy Plan; Eviction of Yamit; Reactions after the Eviction of Yamit; The Connection Between Yamit and Southern Lebanon; The Jewish Underground; Conclusion; 3: The Statist Approach Confronted with the Oslo Accords

State and Redemption in the Thought of Rabbi Shlomo AvinerThe Idea of the "Settlement Blocs" As Conceived by Rabbi Yoel Bin Nun; Messianic Mysticism in the Thought of Rabbi Zvi Tau; Conclusion; 4: Political Reality and Messianic Retreat in the Thought of Rabbi Yehuda Amital; Conclusion; 5: Post-Zionism in the Religious-Zionist Camp: The "Jewish Leadership" Movement; Founding the "Jewish Leadership" Movement; The Faith Revolution: Ideology of the "Jewish Leadership" Movement; Principles of "Faith Consciousness"; Changing of the Guard; Goals of Redemption; Modes of Action

Activities of the "Jewish Leadership" MovementEntry into the Likud; Is Deception a Worthy Jewish Act?; "Jewish Leadership" and the Disengagement Plan; Conclusion; 6: Fundamentalism in Crisis: Response of Messianic Religious Zionism to the Theological Dilemmas Raised by Israel's Disengagement Plan; Rabbinical Reactions to the Disengagement Plan before the Eviction; Strengthening the Idea of a Torah State as the Conclusion from the Disengagement; Retreat to a Fundamentalist Enclave by Marginal Elements Among the Settlers; Events of Amona 2009

Refusal to Obey Orders and the Exclusion of Har Bracha Yeshiva from the "Arrangement"Conclusion; 7: Position of the Messianic Religious Zionist Rabbis to Political Violence and Incitement; Massacre in the Tomb of the Patriarchs; Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin; Independent Zealous Violence; Laws of the "Mixed Multitude"; Conclusion; 8: American Fundamentalist Response to "Land for Peace" Solutions; Historical Background of Fundamental Protestantism's Attitude to the Jews and Zionism; Hal Lindsey; The Late Great Planet Earth; The Road to Holocaust; Will Mankind Survive?

Christians United for Israel: John Hagee's Perception of the Blessing of Philosemitism

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-53987-6

1-107-23450-6

1-283-52193-8

1-139-52706-1

9786613834386

0-511-92053-9

1-139-52586-7

1-139-53172-7

1-139-53053-4

1-139-52825-4

OCLC:

804664856