Protest and the removal of Yamit: ostentatious political action
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This article discusses the relationship between protest activity and news coverage, focusing on three major groups that resisted the Israeli government as it evacuated Jewish settlers from Yamit, Sinai, to fulfill the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Two of these groups - the business persons and the farmers - consisted of long-time Yamit residents seeking compensation for their losses; the other, the Movement to Stop the Withdrawal (MSW), consisted of persons from outside Yamit and had ideological motivations. From participant observations and interviews with group leaders and news reporters during the resistance (December 1981-April 1982) and one month later, the author obtained several lessons and conclusions. In particular, the author found that a symbiotic relationship exists between the press and action group leaders, that groups more sophisticated in dealing with the news media have more experience, resources, and organizational structures, and that groups with ideological goals rather than materialistic ones devise different strategies for exploiting the press and must decide between political expediency and substantive considerations. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1987
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Was it really a trauma? Wider political implications of the removal of Israeli settlements from Sinai
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This article discusses the political conditions allowing the Israeli government to negotiate a peace treaty with Egypt, which led to the evacuation of Israeli settlements in Sinai. This evacuation had no precedent in Israeli history, yet the author finds it did not create a trauma for most Israelis, so the Israeli government was able to implement the peace process with little public debate or resistance. The author states that most Israelis avoided analyzing the ideological framework of the evacuation because of dissonance with either their religious or political beliefs, and because at that time the majority sought relief from the Arab-Israeli conflict, even through territorial compromise. The article concludes that the long-term implications of the evacuation include changing Israeli attitudes toward settlement removal and compromise with the Arabs, and predicts that only a strong coalition government dominated by the Alignment will likely be able to begin serious negotiations concerning the West Bank. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1987
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Exchanging territories for peace: a macrosociological approach
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The Israeli public experienced much confusion during the removal of Israeli settlements from the Sinai Peninsula. The author discusses this confusion and its sources: problems and contradictions related to the society's concept of peace and its value, and the conflict between Israel's desires for peace and recognition versus fears of reversing the settlement process and of losing Israel's identity through integration with the Arab states. The evacuation proceeded as scheduled and without civil war, according to the author, because Egypt's offer was highly desirable, because those opposing withdrawal were not as powerful as the government and military and were unable to attract a broad cross-section of the public, and because the government made a firm decision to negotiate with Egypt and offer territory for peace. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1987
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