Israel's Religious Right and the Failure of the Peace Process

Monthly Review

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 16-30

  Ehrlich, Avishai ^a  

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EID: 0346356281     PISSN: 00270520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14452/MR-053-05-2001-09_2     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. S. Smooha, "The Implications of the Transition to Peace for Israeli Society," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 555 (Jan. 1998). Database Academic Search Elite, 7.
2. G. Shafir and Y. Peled, eds., The New Israel, (Boulder: Westview, 2000). See especially the Introduction and Chapter 10.
3. Smooha, op. cit. 2.
4. S. Smooha, Israel (London 1978).
5. See E. Shprinzak, Political Violence on the Eve of the Peace Process, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1993). (Hebrew) Also: E. Shprinzak: Between Extra-Parliamentary Protest and Terror, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1995).(Hebrew) I. Lustick, For The Land and the Lord, (New York: Council for Foreign Relations, 1988). , Also: I. Lustick, Unsettled States - Disrupted Lands (Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 1993).
6. See E. Shprinzak, Political Violence on the Eve of the Peace Process, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1993). (Hebrew) Also: E. Shprinzak: Between Extra-Parliamentary Protest and Terror, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1995).(Hebrew) I. Lustick, For The Land and the Lord, (New York: Council for Foreign Relations, 1988). , Also: I. Lustick, Unsettled States - Disrupted Lands (Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 1993).
7. See E. Shprinzak, Political Violence on the Eve of the Peace Process, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1993). (Hebrew) Also: E. Shprinzak: Between Extra-Parliamentary Protest and Terror, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1995).(Hebrew) I. Lustick, For The Land and the Lord, (New York: Council for Foreign Relations, 1988). , Also: I. Lustick, Unsettled States - Disrupted Lands (Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 1993).
8. See E. Shprinzak, Political Violence on the Eve of the Peace Process, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1993). (Hebrew) Also: E. Shprinzak: Between Extra-Parliamentary Protest and Terror, (Jerusalem Institute for the Study of Israel, 1995).(Hebrew) I. Lustick, For The Land and the Lord, (New York: Council for Foreign Relations, 1988). , Also: I. Lustick, Unsettled States - Disrupted Lands (Ithaca: Cornel University Press, 1993).
9. See Y. Hirschfeld, Oslo (Am Oved, 2000).(Hebrew)
10. On Shas's political stance, see E. Yaar and T. Harman, "Shas The Haredi-Dovish Image in a Changing Society," Israel Studies 5 (Fall 2000), 32-77. Also: Yoav Peled, ed., Shas (Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot Books, 2001). (Hebrew)
11. On Shas's political stance, see E. Yaar and T. Harman, "Shas The Haredi-Dovish Image in a Changing Society," Israel Studies 5 (Fall 2000), 32-77. Also: Yoav Peled, ed., Shas (Tel Aviv: Yediot Aharonot Books, 2001). (Hebrew)
12. See Y. Peres and E. Yaar, Between Agreement and Conflict (Jerusalem:The Institute for Democracy, 1998).(Hebrew); E. Don Yehiya, "Religion, Ethnicity and Electoral Reform" in D. Elazar and S. Sandler, eds., Israel at the Polls (London: Frank Cass, 1998).
13. See Y. Peres and E. Yaar, Between Agreement and Conflict (Jerusalem:The Institute for Democracy, 1998).(Hebrew); E. Don Yehiya, "Religion, Ethnicity and Electoral Reform" in D. Elazar and S. Sandler, eds., Israel at the Polls (London: Frank Cass, 1998).
14. Tzvia Greenfield, Cosmic Fear (Tel Aviv: Miskal-Yedioth Aharonot Books,2001). (Hebrew)
15. Ilan Schahar, "One of Five Elementary School Pupils is Ultra-Orthodox." Ha'aretz, April 15, 2001, A1. In the article he shows that in 1989-90, only 7.6 percent of all pupils in elementary education were in ultra-Orthodox schools, while in 1999-2000 the number increased to 20 percent. In addition, in 1999-2000, 19.2 percent of pupils were in state religious education
16. Such criticisms have been voiced by left Palestinian intellectuals such as Saleh Abu Jawad and Naim Al-Ashhab, e.g, Ha'aretz, Sept. 24, 2001, B4.
17. This can be also seen as one indication of the decline of the old ruling elites in Israel, the Israeli WASPS (or in Israeli terms: the rule of the Ashkenazi, secular, veterans, socialist, nationalist elites) in face of the rise of new forces in Israeli society. See: Baruch Kimmerling, The End of Ashkenazi Hegemony, (Jerusalem: Keter Publishers, 2001).(Hebrew)
18. E. Yaar and T. Harman, "The Peace Index - March 2001," Ha'aretz, April 4, 2001, B4.