The rise of the Israeli right
From Odessa to Hebron; Israel under siege: the politics of insecurity and the rise of the Israeli neo-revisionist right
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9918955 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Spencer (Chatham House, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 94 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 455-457 |
| Publication date | 2018-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ia/iiy022 |
| OpenAlex | W2791389161 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
It has long been a mystery to many outside observers why in opinion polls a majority of Israelis support a two-state solution yet continue to vote directly, or indirectly, for right-wing political parties set against peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Due to its electoral code, the Israeli political system is doomed to be governed by coalitions, originally with the historic Labour party, and now the Likud party, at the centre of negotiating deals with smaller (and increasingly extreme) parties that dominate subsequent political agendas. In principle, and as declared by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his oft-cited Bar-Ilan speech of 2009, the Likud party does (or did then) support a negotiated two-state solution. The problem is that Likud's coalition partners of the secular and religious, New and Far, right do not. These books go a long way towards explaining why this is so. Colin Shindler analyses the historical trajectory of the people and ideas which gave rise to the ascendancy of the modern right wing in Israel. Since its publication in 2015, the book is already seen as a reference in the field, even though its consideration of the modern era is limited to an overview of how the Likud party—under Menachem Begin from 1977 and Netanyahu since 2009—has come to dominate the centre ground of Israeli politics at the expense of the Israeli Labour party and the political left
Knesset · Negotiation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |