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2. "We Are the Homeowners": Sacred Textuality and the Social Structure of Jewish Religious Nationalism in Israel and the West Bank.
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Stern, Nehemia
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SOCIAL structure , *NATIONALISM , *HOMEOWNERS , *PROPHECY , *ZIONISTS , *BIBLICAL studies - Abstract
This article offers an anthropological look at sacred textuality by exploring the social and theological structure of Jewish religious nationalism in Israel and the West Bank. It argues that the study of sacred texts serves as a medium through which Jewish religious Zionists articulate what it means to return to an ancestral homeland. It demonstrates how the study of these sacred texts is implicated in the cultivation of two different structural modes through which religious Zionists relate to ideas of homecoming. On one side, homecoming rests in a revolutionary force of intellectual insight; on the other, it is expressed through the mystical and mysterious force of prophecy. In a broader sense, this article critiques the reticence of anthropologists to engage seriously with the broader theological ideas that are expressed through a textual medium that can be so much a part of the everyday experiences of individuals living in text-based societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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3. COVID-19 in Palestine: Nationalism and Sovereignty.
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ALJAMAL, YOUSEF M., COHEN, ILISE BENSHUSHAN, and AMOUR, PHILIPP O.
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COVID-19 pandemic , *MEDICAL care - Abstract
The article examines the early spread of COVID-19 in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) in light of nationalism and sovereignty. For Palestinians, the spread of COVID-19 has been challenging due to domestic and regional interactions and limited sovereignty, undermining their ability to combat the virus. Israel, often without coordination with the Palestinian Authority (PA), determined who could enter and exit the OPTs, including tens of thousands of Palestinians working in Israel, leading to an increased number of infections in the West Bank. The pandemic awakened Palestinian national sentiment, serving as a reminder of disunity and lack of sovereignty. Despite these challenges, we show that the Palestinian health system unsuccessfully attempted to overcome the crisis. The combination of economic [inter]dependence on Israel, lack of sovereignty, and nationalist resurgence help explain why the Palestinian health sector recorded thousands of cases following the second wave of the virus. COVID-19 has only further revealed how Palestinians could not practically operate independently from Israel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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4. Israel's 'Nationality Law': Reconsidering Settlement, Citizenship and Ethics in the Context of Occupation.
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Chowers, Eyal
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BUSINESS ethics , *LIBERTY , *CITIZENSHIP , *CONSTITUTIONAL law , *JEWS , *MILITARY government - Abstract
In 2018, the State of Israel enacted a new constitutional law: 'BASIC LAW: ISRAEL-THE NATION STATE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE'. The Law reflects diverse Zionist ideologies which were nevertheless all 'land-centered' rather than state-centered from an early stage; it reformulates that intellectual tradition, however, promoting Jewish settlements in conditions of occupation and celebrates, for the first time, settlement as the prime and exclusive goal of the state. Partly to facilitate this goal, and to further blur borders, the law also contracts the meaning and status of Palestinians' citizenship in Israel, thus at least symbolically narrowing the (still significant) political-legal gap between these citizens and the Palestinians living in the West Bank. Finally, the Law seems to vacate the state from its ethical dimension and commitments as defined by its Declaration of independence (1948) — including its commitments to the democratic principles of political liberty for all and equality — thus manifesting the influence ruling and subjugating others through military government is having on Israel's constitutional framework. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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5. Introduction: Thirty Years of Borders Since Berlin.
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Myambo, Melissa Tandiwe and Frassinelli, Pier Paolo
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WORLD Wide Web ,WHITE supremacy ,POST-Cold War Period ,BORDER barriers ,BRITISH withdrawal from the European Union, 2016-2020 ,XENOPHOBIA ,ANTI-globalization movement - Abstract
November 9, 2019 marked the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the physical and geopolitical barrier that divided Berlin and the East from the West. This event symbolically inaugurated the period of post-Cold War globalization. The birth of the World Wide Web that same year spurred on globalization and led many observers to believe that (national) borders had become passé. The zeitgeist seemed to promise a borderless world in which capitalism and democracy would flourish. However, instead, the last three decades have paradoxically borne witness to the proliferation, rescaling, and reinforcement of territorial and other types of borders – linguistic, religious, ethnic, class, racial, urban, cultural, digital, temporal etc. The contemporary preoccupation with borders and walls is the result of the "deglobalization" that is also, ironically, a global phenomenon – Brexit, Trump's border wall, Israel's concrete wall in the West Bank, xenophobia from South Africa to India to "Fortress Europe," and the growing power of right wing authoritarian leaders in several nations. The resurgence of (ethno)nationalism, racism, white supremacy, isolationism, populism, protectionism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and religious fundamentalism are all dialectical consequences of this global backlash. This is the subject of this special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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6. 'Denial or Faith?' Therapy Versus Messianism in Preparing for the Evacuation of Israeli Settlements.
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Plotkin Amrami, Galia
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MESSIANISM ,ISRAELI settlements (Occupied territories) ,MENTAL health practitioners ,RELIGIOUS education ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
This article offers an ethnographic account of the professional activities of mental health practitioners, employed by the state's religious education system. I analyze various models implemented by practitioners for the purposes of preparing pupils for the state-mandated evacuation of Jewish settlers from Gaza and the West Bank. By focusing on the interaction between psychological and religious-national cultural frameworks I show how practitioners imbue familiar professional concepts with new meanings and create hybrid models of intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2015
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7. Israeli Arabs.
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Walzer, Michael
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POLITICS & ethnic relations , *MILITARY occupation , *ARABS , *RACE discrimination , *ARMED Forces in foreign countries , *NATIONALISM - Abstract
Focuses on the emergence of ethnic politics in Israel; Call for a strike by the Arabs on grounds of discriminatory treatment meted out to them in Israel; Views of an inherent problem which is deeper than discrimination and ethnic self assertion; Reference to Israeli-Palestinian relations on the West Bank; Refusal of the Arab states to accept Israeli statehood; Views that Israel must share cordial relations with the Palestinians; Israel has been liberal in its attitude towards Palestine; Resentment among the people of the West Bank on being ruled by Israel; Reference to obstacles to the Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank; Nationalism of the Jews and hostility of the surrounding Arab states.
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- 1976
8. Battle at the "Fortress": The Israel-Jenin Conflict in U.S. News.
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Ismail, Amani
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JENIN (West Bank : Refugee camp) ,REFUGEE camps ,TELEVISION broadcasting of news - Abstract
This study investigates constructions of Palestinian political violence in U.S. news within the second Palestinian intifada, focusing on Israeli incursions into Jenin. It sheds light on media's role as agents of social control and influence by examining such elements as labels attached to violence and how these elements speak to ideologies embedded in the news concerning the Palestinian struggle for state. News articles were chosen from top U.S. circulating newspapers that have foreign bureaus in Israel or the Occupied Territories. Findings highlight the role that nationalism plays in newsmaking, a role whose importance may extend beyond this particular conflict, as it could help us better understand the bearing of nationalism in other conflicts as well. The news simplified this complex conflict at the expense of providing sufficient, meaningful context to understand the nuances involved. For instance, framing the conflict in highly primordial terms ironically came with conflated understanding of identities. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
9. Welcome back to the occupation.
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MILITARY personnel , *JUDAISM , *NATIONALISM - Abstract
The article presents the discussion on Netanyahu government raising the temperature in the West Bank. Topics include claiming responsibility for a string of attacks on Israeli soldiers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank; and Judaism's holiest site which being also sacred to Muslims and a symbol of Palestinian national identity.
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- 2022
10. Education, revolution and evolution: the Palestinian universities as initiators of national struggle 1972–1995.
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Zelkovitz, Ido
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EDUCATION of Palestinians , *NATIONALISM & education , *UNIVERSITIES & colleges , *HIGHER education & politics , *HIGHER education ,ISRAEL-Palestine relations - Abstract
Since the concept of nationalism first emerged on the world stage, universities have played a key role in its collective formation and dissemination to the masses. Established under challenging circumstances and subjected to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the wake of the 1967 war, Palestinian institutions of higher education have trodden a thin line between the training of human resources requisite to their national movement and compliance with the dictates of a military regime bent on curbing such aspirations. This research examines the various roles played by Palestinian universities in the ongoing struggle for national independence. Spanning from its inception to the establishment of the Palestinian Authority, this collection of first-hand accounts, historical documents and critical analysis explores the evolution and adaptation of Palestinian higher education amidst three decades of social and political turmoil. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2014
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11. Primary Frameworks, Keying and the Dynamics of Contentious Politics: The Islamization of the Chechen and Palestinian National Movements.
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Johnston, Hank and Alimi, Eitan Y.
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NATIONALISM , *POLITICAL participation , *SOCIAL history ,WEST Bank politics & government - Abstract
Expanding on McAdam, Tarrow and Tilly's approach to the study of contentious episodes, we develop a conceptual framework to analyze front-stage politics in the light of back-stage cultural and interpretative processes, drawing upon the Chechen and the Palestinian national movements. We elaborate on Goffman's original notion of 'primary frameworks' to capture the influence of fundamental cultural templates, and his concept of 'keying processes' to capture the way primary frameworks are reworked in the dynamics of political contention. We then identify three central components of primary frameworks, namely, collective identity (the subject), what the subject does (the verb) and who or what is the object of those actions (the object). This article identifies the primary frameworks and keying processes of Chechens and Palestinians with relation to Russia and Israel, respectively. It then traces how they are played out in the heat of political contention as changes in the structure of political opportunities and threats unfold, and how they combine to drive a process of Islamization. We conclude by discussing how the subject-verb-object triplet of primary frameworks helps specify the dynamic interpretative work in political contention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2012
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12. Geographies of the Body: Music, Violence and Manhood in Palestine.
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McDonald, DavidA.
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VIOLENCE , *MASCULINITY , *EPITHALAMIA , *GENDER , *NATIONALISM - Abstract
In this article I examine the dialogic relationship between violence, performance and the attainment and enactment of masculinity among Palestinian male youths in Jordan and the West Bank. Focusing specifically on the poetics of masculinity embodied in and articulated through wedding celebrations, I explore the various ways in which repertories of indigenous wedding song and dance have been operationalised in the nationalist movement as a means of engendering acts of resistance and sacrifice to the nation. I argue that the engendering of resistance and violence as acts of manhood has been greatly facilitated by the performative transference of wedding songs and dances into politico-nationalist frames. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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13. PALESTINIAN CHILDREN CRAFTING NATIONAL IDENTITY.
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Habashi, Janette
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NATIONAL character , *NATIONALISM , *CHILDHOOD attitudes , *PARADOX - Abstract
This study examines the formulation of national identity in Palestinian children by exploring their understanding of its paradoxes. Twelve Palestinian children were interviewed from cities, villages and refugee camps in the West Bank. The children express the multiple dimensions of national identity in terms of self and other; however these expressions are fragmented in nature. Furthermore, the findings indicate that national identity highlights children as geopolitical agents, rather than separate entities defined by time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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14. Jewish Geopolitics: Nationalism and the Ties between the State and the Land.
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Cohen, SaulB.
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NATIONALISM , *HUMAN territoriality , *ISRAELI national character in literature , *SOVEREIGNTY , *INTERNATIONAL law - Abstract
Professor Yosseph Shilhav's article in this issue of National Identities entitled 'Jewish Territoriality between Land and State' is an important addition to the literature on territoriality and national sovereignty. His carefully researched and insightful study of the religious affinity between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel is especially timely because of the urgency that the present intifada has given to the debate within Israel over the political future of the West Bank and Gaza. What is most provocative, as well as innovative, is Dr Shilhav's thesis that the clash of opinion within Israel over the solution to the Occupied Territories is not, as commonly understood, a political debate between 'hawks' and 'doves', but is rooted in differences of religious interpretation concerning the 'sanctity of the Land'. It is with this thesis that I take issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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15. Overview.
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Zanotti, Jim
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NATIONALISM ,NATIONAL character ,JEWISH migrations ,EMIGRATION & immigration - Abstract
The article presents an overview of the Palestinian Question which focuses on whether and how Palestinians can establish a viable, independent state. It notes that the concept of Palestinian national identity grew from the challenge posed by increased Jewish migration to Israel, West Bank and Gaza. It refers to the Palestinian Quesiton as one of the most provocative issue in the international arena as analysts debate whether it is central to the world and region's problems.
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- 2014
16. Oslo Still Relevant at Twenty.
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Makovsky, David
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OSLO Accords (1993) ,ARAB-Israeli conflict ,ISRAEL-Palestine relations ,NATIONALISM ,TWENTIETH century ,HISTORY - Abstract
The article discusses the benefits and shortcomings of the 1993 Oslo Accords signed between Israel and Palestine, and includes information on its relevance to nationalism. Among the benefits that were mentioned include the presence of wide agreement among Palestinians, Israelis, and the international community, the two-state solution legacy, and the creation of the Palestinian Authority. Shortcomings include failure to establish peace education programs and division of the West Bank.
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- 2013
17. THE ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST MOVEMENT IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA STRIP.
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Jubran, Michel and Drake, Laura
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ISLAMIC fundamentalism ,ARABS ,RELIGIONS ,SOCIOLOGY ,NATIONALISM - Abstract
The article focuses on the Islamic fundamentalist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The author inferred that in 1970, when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) managed to monopolize the political advantages of nationalism, the Islamists proposed an ideological, social, political and military alternative to the PLO model. It is also stated that the claiming of military operations of Islam on the part of Palestinians occupation is a new phenomenon. In addition, the Muslim Brotherhood leadership overview about the majority of Palestinians is presented.
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- 1993
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18. The Future of Palestine.
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Shikaki, Khalil
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ARAB-Israeli peace process , *MILITARY policy , *ELECTIONS , *VOTING , *WAR , *PALESTINIANS , *POLITICAL participation , *NATIONALISM , *INTERNATIONAL relations ,ISRAELI politics & government, 1993- ,POLITICS & government of Palestine - Abstract
The article discusses why the Palestinian Authority (PA) is facing its most serious internal challenge since it was established in 1994. A violent showdown in the Gaza Strip between competing nationalist factions has threatened to destroy the PA and domestic security after four years of uprising against Israel. The turmoil represents a critical danger, not just for Palestinian society and its dreams of a unified state, but also for Israel's plan to disengage unilaterally from Gaza. If Israel implements Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip in 2005, Palestinian society will fragment even more, lose the benefit of unified representation, and possibly lapse into bloody infighting. But it is not too late to change course: holding Palestinian national elections before Israel's withdrawal could prevent chaos and help establish the foundations for a democratic Palestinian state committed to peaceful relations with Israel. For all the hope that elections offer, conditions in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip are not now conducive to holding them: the ongoing violence would make it difficult for voters to reach the ballot box. Palestinian factions must reach an understanding on a complete cease-fire during the election period. The U.S. and other international actors must ensure that the Palestinians and Israel implement their election-related commitments.
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- 2004
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19. Minority Report.
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Hitchens, Christopher
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NATIONALISM , *POLITICAL autonomy , *PRIME ministers - Abstract
Just as United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan was leaving town, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was once again donning the skullcap and visiting fortified settlements and celebrating another triumph over U.S. Netanyahu does not depend on the clerical and nationalist extremists just for votes. He depends on them as allies against the Israeli left and as shock troops for the West Bank. Moreover, they are his ideological forebears. The U.S. government persists in talking as if the only difference concerned percentages of territory, and the pace at which these would be turned over to self-rule.
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- 1998
20. The Myth of "Settlements"
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ARAB-Israeli conflict , *HISTORY , *LAND settlement , *NATIONALISM ,ISRAEL-West Bank border ,DECLARATION of Independence, Israel, 1948 - Abstract
The article discusses some of the facts of the conflict in the Middle East, with a focus on the relevance of the settlements in the West Bank as the alleged root cause of the violence in the region. The author present an historical overview of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and concludes by questioning the national identity of the Palestinians as a relatively new concept and a direct consequence of the creation of the State of Israel.
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- 2012
21. Why true Palestinian unity remains elusive.
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Baroud, Ramzy
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NATIONAL unification , *NATIONALISM , *CONCORD ,POLITICS & government of Palestine, 1948- - Abstract
The author reflects on the failure of Palestine to achieve national unity despite the elation over the national unity government. He discusses the social and political condition in Palestine wherein the establishment of a transitional government in the West Bank is not considered linked with Palestinian unity. He comments that Palestinian unity requires a new leadership with new thinking and shaped based on Palestinian national priorities.
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- 2014
22. What if Israel Had Turned Back?
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Segev, Tom
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ISRAEL-Arab War, 1967 , *NATIONALISM , *ARAB-Israeli conflict, 1993- - Abstract
The article discusses certain issues regarding invasion of Arab Sections of Jerusalem and the West Bank by Israel during the Six Day War. Declassified Israeli government documents reveal that Israeli policy planners had determined six months prior to the war that the invasion would encourage Palestinian nationalism and lead to violent opposition. But, as stated, during the war, these possible outcomes of the war were forgotten by Israelis.
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- 2007
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