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Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience

Religious Zionism and the Settlement Project: Ideology, Politics, and Civil Disobedience

Hellinger, Moshe
Hershkowitz, Isaac
Susser, Bernard

Paperback

JudaismIsrael & Palestine HistorySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1438468385
ISBN13: 9781438468389
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2019
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

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.

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