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(Re-)Making The State: Religious Zionism, Religious Violence, And Israel In The 21st Century, Abe Asher
(Re-)Making The State: Religious Zionism, Religious Violence, And Israel In The 21st Century, Abe Asher
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Israel’s triumph and seizure of land in the Six-Day War paved the way for a religious Zionist movement based around territorial conquest exemplified by the ideology of Meir Kahane. Over the next 30 years, but particularly during the Oslo period in the mid-1990s, that movement organized and used targeted religious violence to gain power and solidify its place in Israeli society. Building on Shaul Magid’s work, I propose that Kahane’s ethics of violence have been adopted by or allowed to flourish within the modern State of Israel — a response to historic and present Jewish precarity centered on ethnocentric survival.