From ?Both Banks of the Jordan? to the ?Whole Land of Israel:? Ideological Change in Revisionist Zionism

2004 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadav G. Shelef
Keyword(s):  
Ideological Change ◽  
Land Of Israel ◽  
Revisionist Zionism

Questions of Lebanon

Worldview ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 18-21
Author(s):  
Avi Shlaim
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Political Program ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Religious Parties ◽  
Election Results ◽  
One Year ◽  
Land Of Israel

The second government formed by Menachem Begin, following the Likud party's narrow victory in the June, 1981, elections, represented a real change in Israeli foreign policy. Dominated by a group of hard-liners committed to the ideology of "Greater Israel" and powered by a drive for regional hegemony, this government led Israel along a nationalistic and militant course, culminating within one year in a full-scale invasion of Lebanon. The election results, which gave the Likud 48 seats in the new Knesset compared with the Labor party's 47, hardly provided an unequivocal mandate for the pursuit of Begin's far-reaching political program, a program that can be summed up in the two words Eretz Yisrael—the whole land of Israel. Nor could a coalition with the religious parties, which commanded a wafer-thin majority of 61 in the 120-member Knesset, be considered a natural vehicle for bringing about such a radical change in foreign policy.

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