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Welfare Ministry, Israeli, 120
West Bank, 1–2, 4–5, 56–58.
See also specific locations
Allon and, 65, 71
Civil Administration and, 56
constitution debate and, 43
court-ordered demolitions in, 132–34
crimes against Arabs in, 86–89, 97–100, 107, 122
disengagement of 2009 and, 161
education funding and, 95
ending occupation of, 9, 226–29, 231–32
evacuation of, and military refusals, 115–16, 136, 152–53, 161–62
international law and, 72–75
land laws and, 80, 83–84
municipal governments in, 78–79
Olmert proposals on, 212
one- vs. two-state solution and, 224–25
Palestinian Authority and, 79, 105
Palestinian self-rule and, 9
policing, 122, 162, 194
post-Oslo settlements in, 2, 9
Rabin road building in, 105, 108
renamed Judea and Samaria, 67
security fence and, 113–15, 206–7
Six-Day War and, 8, 62–63, 65–66
state aid for settlements in, 93, 95, 103–4, 124–25, 127–28, 185–86
war of 1948 and, 28
Wye agreement on, 126
West Germany, 55
Whole Land of Israel ideal, 17, 28, 63, 69–70, 90–92, 98–100, 106–8, 136–38, 140, 152, 155, 159, 162, 212, 234
women
rabbinic court and, 181
as soldiers, 152
ultra-Orthodox, 173, 175, 186–87
World War II, 17, 26, 46, 60
World Zionist Organization, 236
Settlement Division, 71, 84, 124, 127
Wye summit (1998), 125–26, 128

 

Ya’ari, Meir, 42
Yad Vashem, 243
Yesh Din, 122, 133, 215
Yesh Gvul, 139
Yevsektsia, 42
Yiftachel, Oren, 5, 11
Yitzhar, 118–20, 152, 156, 202, 233
Yom Kippur War (1973), 69, 81, 146

 

Zamir, Yitzhak, 86
Zar, Gilad, 101
Zar, Itai, 101–3, 131, 157
Zar, Moshe, 101
Zionism.
See also
Labor Zionism; redemptive Zionism; religious Zionism; Revisionist Zionism; secular Zionism;
and specific political parties
birth of Israel and, 5–7, 22, 24–25, 29, 44–46
early history of, 36–38, 51, 59–60
settlements not serving, 89–90, 96, 227
Zionist Organization, 16–17, 24, 51
Zohar, Zvi, 182

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About the Author

Gershom Gorenberg
has written for
The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic
, and in Hebrew for
Ha’aretz
. He is a senior correspondent for
The American Prospect
and blogs at SouthJerusalem.com. Gorenberg is the author of
The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements, 1967–1977
and
The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount
. He lives in Jerusalem with his wife and their three children.

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THE UNMAKING OF ISRAEL.
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Gorenberg, Gershom.

The Unmaking of Israel / Gershom Gorenberg.—1st ed.

    p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-0-06-198508-9

1. Land settlement—West Bank—History. 2. Land settlement—West Bank—Government policy—Israel. 3. Israelis—Colonization—West Bank—History. 4. Jews—Colonization—West Bank—History. 5. Religious Zionists—Political activity—West Bank. 6. Arab-Israeli conflict—Occupied territories. 7. Israel—Politics and government. I. Title.

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EPub Edition © November 2011 ISBN: 9780062097316

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