Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Glossaries
- Chronology
- Preface to the second edition: Towards 2020
- Introduction
- 1 Zionism and security
- 2 The Hebrew Republic
- 3 New immigrants and first elections
- 4 The politics of piety
- 5 Retaliation or self-restraint
- 6 The Rise of The Right
- 7 The Road to Beirut
- 8 Dissent at Home and Abroad
- 9 An insurrection before a handshake
- 10 The end of ideology?
- 11 The Killing of a Prime Minister
- 12 The Magician and the Bulldozer
- 13 ‘He does not stop at the red light’
- 14 An unlikely grandfather
- 15 A Brotherly Conflict
- 16 Bialik's bequest?
- 17 Stagnation and Isolationism
- 18 An Arab Spring and an Israeli winter?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
11 - The Killing of a Prime Minister
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2013
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Glossaries
- Chronology
- Preface to the second edition: Towards 2020
- Introduction
- 1 Zionism and security
- 2 The Hebrew Republic
- 3 New immigrants and first elections
- 4 The politics of piety
- 5 Retaliation or self-restraint
- 6 The Rise of The Right
- 7 The Road to Beirut
- 8 Dissent at Home and Abroad
- 9 An insurrection before a handshake
- 10 The end of ideology?
- 11 The Killing of a Prime Minister
- 12 The Magician and the Bulldozer
- 13 ‘He does not stop at the red light’
- 14 An unlikely grandfather
- 15 A Brotherly Conflict
- 16 Bialik's bequest?
- 17 Stagnation and Isolationism
- 18 An Arab Spring and an Israeli winter?
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
The Return of the Rejectionists
At the core of the initial opposition to the Oslo Accord and the ongoing peace process was a refusal to ditch ideological ‘truths’ and compromise. In Israel, the rejectionists comprised the national religious, led by the settlers, and the security-conscious members of the Right. Amongst the Palestinians, the Islamists reiterated their belief that the Jews did not have a right to national self-determination and therefore they could never accept a two-state solution. Their opposition to Oslo was supported by the secular nationalists of the PFLP, the DFLP, Fatah's Tanzim and other groups who wished to reverse the outcome of the 1948 war by continuing the armed struggle. On the northern border Iran, freed from the decade-long war with Iraq, encouraged Hezbollah to implement cross-border attacks to kill and abduct Israeli soldiers as a means of disrupting the evolving peace process.
The Oslo Accord and the decision to participate in negotiations and diplomacy left an ideological vacuum which Hamas and Islamic Jihad willingly filled. The abandonment of the revolutionary road of armed struggle was a dramatic and indeed abrupt change for many Palestinians. Most of the organizations on the PLO Executive refused to join the Palestine Authority.
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- A History of Modern Israel , pp. 244 - 266Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013