| ID | 127336 |
| Title Proper | Clash of civil religions |
| Other Title Information | a paradigm for understanding Israeli politics |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lewin, Eyal |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Almost thirty-five years after Camp David and twenty years after the Oslo Accord, a fundamental question remains unanswered: does the majority of the Israeli public support a left-wing or right-wing ideology? The answer, in a democratic system, should be obvious, since elections are supposed to give a clear picture of the political preferences of the voting public. However, Israeli polls are misleading. After the Yom Kippur disaster in 1977, Menachem Begin won his premiership running as the hawkish leader who never would surrender even one grain of sand from the Land of Israel. Yet after he personally gave up the entire Sinai Peninsula his party won an even greater majority in 1981.1 Yitzhak Rabin won his premiership in 1992 representing the hawkish section of the Labor party with declarations that he would never negotiate with the PLO;2 yet it seems that signing the Oslo Accords led him, rather, to the peak of his popularit. |
| `In' analytical Note | Jewish Political Studies Review vol. 25, 1-2 (3/1/2013) |
| Journal Source | Jewish Political Studies Review vol. 25, 1-2 (3/1/2013) |
| Key Words | Oslo Accords ; International Negotiation ; International Politics ; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict ; Israeli International Relations ; Israeli National Identity ; American Jewish Community ; Jewish Political Tradition ; International Relations - IR ; Conflicts ; United States - US ; United Nations - UN ; European Union - EU ; Ethnic Violence ; History ; Jewish World ; International Anti-Semitism ; Anti-Zionism ; Crisis ; Israel Diaspora ; Jewish Communities ; Paradigm |