Settlers Flashcards
How many Palestinians worked in Israel by 1990s?
120,000
Who have stressed that settlements/occupation have toppled governments and brought Israel’s democracy and political culture to the brink of an abyss?
Zertal and Eldar
Who has called settlements an international tinderbox?
Selengut
Who see settlements as a major obstacle to peace?
Massoud, Lustick, Zunes
Who marketed settlements in Jerusalem as multiculturalism?
Mayor Teddy Kollek
Who has stressed the role of settlers in successfully manipulating a pragmatic majority?
Eldar, Taub
What do settlements violate in international law?
Article 49 of 4th GC
What kind of rock is commonly used in settlement construction in Jerusalem?
Jerusalem stone
Who argues what settlers are a testimony to and documentation for GE’s influence within society and on government policy?
Shamal and Mezvinsky
What distinction does Taub make between the settlers’ and state’s approaches to sovereignty?
Land/settlements as means of establishing sovereignty and sovereignty as means for settling land
What does Kimmerling argue about settlers?
That they’ve shattered hegemony of secular Zionism and Ashkenazi ethnic dominance
What is the biggest threat posed by settlers according to Inbar and Maddy-Weizzman?
Delegitimisation of the state
What does Sprinzak argue about GE?
Tip of the iceberg
From what does GEs power come from according to Sprinkzak?
Invisible realm - political cultural economic and military spheres and structures
How many votes did the Kahane Party get in 1984+1988?
1.3% and 7% predicted
Who have emphasised the role played by illegal outposts?
Aronoff, Lustick, Peleg, Shafir
Who argues that illegal outposts couldn’t possible be part of the government’s agenda?
Haklai
What does Weizmann argue about outposts?
Sabotage prospects for peace - determine course of wall
What settlements did Sharon use to affect diplomatic negotiations?
Potemkin settlements
What percentage of soldiers voted Kahane in 1984?
2.5%
Which rabbi urged disobedience in 2005?
Rabbi Shapira
Who have stressed the influence of settlers in he appointment of military commanders?
Zertal and Eldar
What percentage of the infantry corps wa religious in 1990&2007?
2% to 30%
What does Aran argue about the settlers?
Central arguments expressed in pastiche of realpolitik analyses, Zionist cliches, moral preachingd, Talmudic citations
Who stresses the government’s role?
Weizmann, Gordon, Eldar
What does Gordon say about settlers?
Settlers an effect of state power - medium of its articulation rather than instigator
How many settlers supported keeping some settlements in 1999?
100/120
What does Shahak argue about parties and support for settlements?
Same concept held with different levels of hypocrisy - oppression with maximum efficiency
What purpose did settlements serve in Gaza?
Pivots in complex military road grid
Where did Begin make his first speech as PM?
Kdumim - there will be many more Elon morehs
What has Lustick argued about settlements and the state?
Occupation presented as temporary and permanent - moral and non existent. Erasure practices from the outset
Who argues that there has been an overarching consistency in policy?
Gordon
Who argues that “invasion is a structure not an event”?
Dalsheim
What land plan was adopted by Likud?
Drobless plan
What generous aid was given to settlers in 1986?
50% subsidies and 7% income tax reduction
How many economic settlers were there in 2005?
123,000
What does Weizmann argue pushes settlement growth?
Not economic demand but sophisticated government program
What kind of rhetoric have settlers adopted?
Security
Where did Israel disengage from in 1982?
Yamit in Sinai
According to Yiftachel what did the state create to address demographic headache?
Gaza-barrier package
What identity have settlers created for themselves according to Ben-rafael?
Substitution of israeliness for yeshaness
What book written in 1988 explored the rifts in Israeli society?
Grossman’s The Yellow Wind
What percentage of the population are settlers?
5%
What theory does Haklai use re settlers?
State penetration
What is the settlers’ election voter turnout?
83%
In what election would Peres have won by 5% had votes only from Israel proper been counted?
1996
What parties do settlers typically vote for?
Yesh Atid, Israeli Beitenu, Bait Hayehudi
Who the poses that settlers are 90-95% kn the civil derive?
Shahak
What was the purpose of the open bridges policy?
Invisible occupation
