Israel at a crossroads between civic democracy and Jewish zealotocracy

Journal of Palestine Studies

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 33-44

  Pappé, Ilan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Institute for Peace Research   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY; POLITICAL SYSTEM;

ISRAEL;

EID: 0034044813     PISSN: 0377919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2676454     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. When referring to Labor and Likud, I refer not only to their platforms but also to the attitudes of their electorate as manifested in opinion polls and the political scourse of individuals regarding themselves as belonging to the "silent majority" or "mainstream" Israel.
2. Even the present manipulation of Holocaust memory has become a legitimate topic for debate, not only in academia but in the public discourse. A measure of the change is the fact that the Knesset for the first time has agreed to debate proposals to transform Israel from a Jewish state to a state for all its citizens. This has no chance of being endorsed, but in the past it was forbidden by law to present such bills. Now, without even changing the law, they have been allowed on the Knesset's agenda.
3. Uri Ram, "Post-Nationalist Pasts: The Case of Israel," Social Science History 22, no. 4 (Summer 1989), pp. 513-45.
4. See Ilan Pappé, "Post-Zionist Critique on Israel and the Palestinians," parts 1-3, JPS 26, no. 2 (Winter 1997), pp. 29-41; 26, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 37-43; 26, no. 4 (Summer 1997), pp. 60-69.
5. See Ilan Pappé, "Post-Zionist Critique on Israel and the Palestinians," parts 1-3, JPS 26, no. 2 (Winter 1997), pp. 29-41; 26, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 37-43; 26, no. 4 (Summer 1997), pp. 60-69.
6. See Ilan Pappé, "Post-Zionist Critique on Israel and the Palestinians," parts 1-3, JPS 26, no. 2 (Winter 1997), pp. 29-41; 26, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 37-43; 26, no. 4 (Summer 1997), pp. 60-69.
7. In the 1996 elections, 6,000 Jews voted for Hadash, which represented such an option. About 12,000 voted for Hadash in the 1999 elections.
8. After Rabin's assassination, the "Peace Index," which measures general support for the peace process, reached its zenith, 73.1%, but after a series of terrorist attacks in Israeli urban centers, it declined to 58.1%, its nadir. It has since remained steady, between 58% and 62%. This index has been tracked by all of the daily press since 1994.
9. Ha'aretz, 4 June 1996 [in Hebrew].
10. The document was finalized on 22 January 1997. See JPS 26, no. 3 (Spring 1997), pp. 160-62.
11. For the official text of the Paris Protocol, see JPS 23, no. 4 (Summer 1994), pp. 103-18.
12. See, for instance, the issue of Nativ 2, no. 67 (March 1999) [in Hebrew], which is devoted to the question of the Palestinian state.
13. The Messiah's Donkey (Tel Aviv: Yedi'ot Aharonot, 1997).
14. Ehud Sprinzak, The Ascendance of Israel's Radical Right (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991).
15. The neo-Zionists had control of the Ministry of Education in the last unity government, 1984-88; in the Shamir government, 1989-92; and again in the Netanyahu government, 1996-99.
16. The Ministry of Education, Israel's Jubilee (Jerusalem, 1998). The book was the subject of Associated Press bulletins when it came out, and a book review on it can be found at the Hebron Institute for Political and Religious Studies Web site at http://www.hebroacom.
17. Yedi'ot Aharonot, 19 April 1999 [in Hebrew]. For an analysis of Israeli textbooks and curricula, see Eli Podeh, The Portrayal of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History and Civics Textbooks, 1953-95 (Jerusalem: Truman Institute, 1997) [in Hebrew].
18. Yedi'ot Aharonot, 19 April 1999 [in Hebrew]. For an analysis of Israeli textbooks and curricula, see Eli Podeh, The Portrayal of the Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History and Civics Textbooks, 1953-95 (Jerusalem: Truman Institute, 1997) [in Hebrew].
19. Interview with the Ministry of Education director general, Yedi'ot Aharonot, 9 September 1998 [in Hebrew].
20. Ibid.
21. Under the Israeli system, teachers can choose from several approved kits for classroom use.
22. New York Times, 14 August 1999. Throughout September 1999, the Israeli press was full of debate on the books mentioned in this report by Ethan Bronner, particularly a book entitled The Twentieth Century, by Eyal Naveh, commissioned by the Ministry of Education in 1999.
23. New York Times, 14 August 1999. Throughout September 1999, the Israeli press was full of debate on the books mentioned in this report by Ethan Bronner, particularly a book entitled The Twentieth Century, by Eyal Naveh, commissioned by the Ministry of Education in 1999.
24. See my review in JPS 27, no. 4 (Summer 1998), pp. 99-105.
25. Ha'Aretz, 29 March 1998 [in Hebrew].
26. These attitudes have ben analyzed by Oren Yiftachel, The Research on the Arab Minority in Israel and Its Relations with the Jewish Majority: Survey and Analysis (Givat Haviva: Institute for Peace Research, 1993) [in Hebrew].