Religious Zionism and the settlement project : ideology, politics, and civil disobedience / Moshe Hellinger, Isaac Hershkowitz, and Bernard Susser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hellinger, Moshe, author.

Hershkowitz, Isaac, author.

Susser, Bernard, 1942- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious Zionism--Israel--History.

Religious Zionism.

Religious Zionists--Israel--Attitudes.

Religious Zionists.

Land settlement--Political aspects--Gaza Strip.

Land settlement.

Land settlement--Political aspects--West Bank.

Israelis--Colonization--Gaza Strip.

Israelis.

Israelis--Colonization--West Bank.

Democracy--Religious aspects--Judaism.

Democracy.

Gaza Strip--Ethnic relations.

Gaza Strip.

West Bank--Ethnic relations.

West Bank.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany : SUNY Press, [2018]

Summary:

An in-depth account of the ideology driving Israel's religious Zionist settler movements since the 1970s. 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.

Contents:

Disobedience: liberal and religious Zionist

The discourse of disobedience in religious Zionism: from Gush Emunim to the Jewish underground (1974-1984)

From the beginning of the Oslo Process until Rabin's assassination (1993-1995)

The 'Disengagement' from Gaza/Gush Katif

From the clash at Amona (2006) to the price tag gangs (2008-2016)

Final observations.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438468402

1438468407