Motti Inbari

Messianic Religious Zionism Confronts Israeli Territorial Compromises (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The Six Day War in 1967 profoundly influenced how an increasing number of religious Zionists saw Israeli victory as the manifestation of God's desire to redeem God's people. Thousands of religious Israelis joined the Gush Emunim movement in 1974 to create settlements in territories occupied in the war. However, over time, the Israeli government decided to return territory to Palestinian or Arab control. This was perceived among religious Zionist circles as a violation of God's order. The peak of this process came with the Disengagement Plan in 2005, in which Israel demolished all the settlements in the Gaza Strip and four settlements in the West Bank. This process raised difficult theological questions among religious Zionists. This book explores the internal mechanism applied by a group of religious Zionist rabbis in response to their profound disillusionment with the state, reflected in an increase in religious radicalization due to the need to cope with the feelings of religious and messianic failure.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139539876
• Artikelnr.: 52983605

Autorenporträt

Mordechai ('Motti') Inbari is the author of Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount: Who Will Build the Third Temple?, which won the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise Best Publication Award in Israel Studies (2008) and the Ben Shemesh Best Dissertation Award for the Study of Zionism and the State of Israel (2007). His work has appeared in Israel Studies, Hebrew Union College Annual, Nova Religio, Modern Judaism, Journal of Church and State and Studies in Contemporary Jewry. Prior to his appointment at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke, he served as a Post-Doctoral Associate at the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Zionist perceptions in the thought of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and the
roots of Gush Emunim; 2. Gush Emunim and the Israeli-Egyptian peace
agreement; 3. The statist approach confronted with the Oslo Accords; 4.
'Hearing a baby's cry': political reality and messianic retreat in the
thought of Rabbi Yehuda Amital; 5. Post-Zionism in the religious-Zionist
camp: the 'Jewish leadership' movement; 6. Fundamentalism in crisis: the
response of messianic religious Zionism to the theological dilemmas raised
by Israel's disengagement plan; 7. The position of the messianic religious
Zionist rabbis to political violence and incitement; 8. The American
fundamentalist response to 'land for peace' solutions.