The Israeli peace movement : a shattered dream /

The Israeli peace movement : a shattered dream /

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Author / Creator:Hermann, Tamar.
Imprint:New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Description:vii, 310 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Peace movements -- Israel -- History.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- History.
Arab-Israeli conflict.
Peace movements.
Israel.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7842150
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ISBN:9780521884099 (hardback)
0521884098 (hardback)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"This books deals with the predicament of the Israeli peace movement, which, paradoxically, following the launching of the Oslo peace process between Israel and the Palestinians in 1993, experienced a prolonged, fatal decline in membership, activity, political significance, and media visibility. After presenting the regional and national background to the launching of the peace process and a short history of Israeli peace activism, the book focuses on external and internal processes and interactions experienced by the peace movement, after some basic postulates of its agenda were actually, although never explicitly, embraced by the Rabin government. The analysis brings together insights from social movement theory and theories on public opinion and foreign and security policymaking. The book's conclusion is that, despite its organizational decline and the zero credit given to it by the policymakers, in retrospect it appears that the movement contributed significantly to the integration of new ideas for possible solutions to the Middle East conflict in the Israeli mainstream political discourse"--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Exploring Peace Activism - A Road Map
  • Theoretical and Historical Milestones
  • Peace Movements as Social Movements and National Security Agents
  • Methodology
  • 3. Mapping the Israeli Sociopolitical Terrain
  • Historical-Ideological Legacies
  • Sociopolitical Cleavage Structure
  • Israeli Grassroots Political Participation Landscape
  • 4. Paving the Road to Oslo - Israeli Peace Activism through 1993
  • The Israeli Peace Movement: Basic Features
  • Walking Down the Footpath - the Prestate and the Formative Phase (1925-1966)
  • Exploring the Country Road - from the 1967 War to the Aftermath of the 1973 War
  • Hitting the Highway - from the Israeli - Egyptian Peace to the First Gulf War (1978-1991)
  • A Curve in the Road - 1992-1993
  • 5. The Path Strewn with Obstacles (1993-2008)
  • Road Signs
  • The Rest Area Zone
  • The Bumpy Road Zone
  • The Checkpoint Zone
  • The Dark Tunnel Zone
  • The Dead-End Point
  • 6. A Path Finder - Exploring New Ways or Getting Lost?
  • Effecting National Policy
  • Relations with the Political Establishment
  • Establishing Facts on the Ground
  • Reaching Out to the Jewish-Israeli Public
  • Relations with Arab Israeli Citizens and the Palestinians in the Territories
  • Intramovement Relations
  • Modifying the Jewish Israeli Discourse on Peace and Security
  • Increasing the Level of Political Pluralism
  • Influencing Specific Policies
  • Improving Israel's External Image
  • Magnifying Silenced Voices and Public Sectors
  • Appendix 1. List of Israeli Peace Groups
  • Appendix 2. Israeli Jewish Public Opinion on the Oslo Process (1994-2008)
  • Oslo monthly support index
  • Oslo monthly support by levels of religious observance
  • Oslo monthly support by gender
  • Oslo monthly support by ethnic origin
  • Oslo monthly support by income
  • Oslo monthly support by level of education
  • Bibliography
  • Index
Gift of the Clinton M. and Dorothy R. Doede Book Fund bookplate

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