The Settlers; And the Struggle over the Meaning of Zionism

by Gadi Taub

• ISBN13: 9780300141016
• ISBN10: 0300141017
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2010-08-31
• Publisher: Yale University Press

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.

Author Biography

Gadi Taub is assistant professor, Department of Communications and the School of Public Policy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He lives in Tel Aviv.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Political Zionism	p. 23
Religious Zionism: The Politics of Redemption	p. 37
The Watershed: From Gush Emunim to the Yesha Council	p. 65
The Rabin Assassination	p. 99
Disengagement	p. 119
Conclusion: What Next?	p. 153
Appendix: Jewish and Democratic: Complementary or Contradictory?	p. 167
Notes	p. 189
Index	p. 207
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