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Iron wall revisited / Shlaim, Avi

Shlaim, Avi	Journal Article
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2012.

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More than a decade after the publication of his acclaimed The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, Avi Shlaim returns to Ze'ev Jabotinsky's theory as a framework for understanding Israel's Arab policies, this time focusing on the post-1967 period. The author revisits the theory's formulation by the leader of Revisionist Zionism in 1923 and its near total convergence with the (unacknowledged) strategy followed by Labor Zionism. Examining each Israeli government since 1967, he shows that all zealously followed stage one of Jabotinsky's strategy (constructing an "iron wall" of unassailable military strength) but that the lesser known stage two (serious negotiations with the Palestinians after being compelled by stage one to abandon all hope of prevailing over Zionism) has been completely ignored except by Yitzhak Rabin. Indeed, the recent periods have witnessed a full-blown return to the iron wall at its starkest, with increasing resort to violence and unilateralism.

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Palestine ; Israel ; Arab World ; Revisionist Zionism

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Leader as a poet: the political and ideological poetry of Ze'ev Jabotinsky / Naor, Arye

Naor, Arye	Journal Article
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2014.

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This article analyses Ze'ev Jabotinsky's Zionist ideology as expressed in his political poetry. It includes inter alia lessons from the pogroms, the need for emergence of 'a new Jew' who would show by his conduct that he is 'a son of kings', who is ready to either die or capture the mountain, believing in the Jewish national right over the Land of Israel on both banks of the Jordan, as well as in the rights of its Arab and Christian inhabitants. These and other ideological principles appear in his poetry alongside a war of words with the Zionist left.

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Political Leadership ; Jordan ; Jewish Nationalism ; Ethnic Community ; Revisionist Zionism ; Zionist Ideology ;
Theodor Herzl ; Ze'ev Jabotinsky ; Betar ; Religious Aspects ; Political Poetry ; Ideological Poetry ;
Haim Nahman Bialik ; Joseph Trumpeldor ; Tel-Hai

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Revisionist zionism: image, reality and the quest for historical narrative / Zouplna, Jan

Zouplna, Jan	Journal Article
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2008.

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Palestine ; Revisionist Zionism

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