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The Triumph of Israel's Radical Right (Hardcover, New)
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The Triumph of Israel's Radical Right (Hardcover, New)
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Two decades ago, the idea that a "radical right" could capture and
drive Israeli politics seemed highly improbable. While it was a
boisterous faction and received heavy media coverage, it
constituted a fringe element. Yet by 2009, Israel's radical right
had not only entrenched itself in mainstream Israeli politics, it
was dictating policy in a wide range of areas. The government has
essentially caved to the settlers on the West Bank, and
restrictions on non-Jews in Israel have increased in the past few
years. Members of the radical right have assumed prominent
positions in Israel's elite security forces. The possibility of a
two state solution seems more remote than ever, and the emergence
of ethnonationalist politician Avigdor Lieberman suggests that its
power is increasing. Quite simply, if we want to understand the
seemingly intractable situation in Israel today, we need a
comprehensive account of the radical right. In The Triumph of
Israel's Radical Right, acclaimed scholar Ami Pedahzur provides an
invaluable and authoritative analysis of its ascendance to the
heights of Israeli politics. After analyzing what, exactly, they
believe in, he explains how mainstream Israeli policies like "the
right of return" have served as unexpected foundations for their
nativism and authoritarian tendencies. He then traces the right's
steady rise, from the first intifada to the "Greater Israel"
movement that is so prominent today. Throughout, he focuses on the
radical right's institutional networks and how the movement has
been able to expand its constituency. His closing chapter is grim
yet realistic: he contends that a two state solution is no longer
viable and that the vision of the radical rabbi Meir Kahane, who
was a fringe figure while alive, has triumphed.
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