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Israel's Ayatollahs: The Far Right in Israel »

Book cover image of Israel's Ayatollahs: The Far Right in Israel by Philippe Simonnot

Authors: Philippe Simonnot
ISBN-13: 9780863561429, ISBN-10: 086356142X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Saqi Books
Date Published: February 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Philippe Simonnot

Book Synopsis

The authors of this work talk to the leaders of the far right in Israel about their aims, methods, and attitudes towards religion and the state. In an extended interview, founder of the Kach movement, Meir Kahane, argues that the Arabs should be expelled from Israel and the occupied territories.

Table of Contents

I. The Pariah
1. From the FBI to the Knesset
2. God's Law: an Interview with Rabbi Meir Kahane

II. Leading Figures of Far-Right Zionism
1. Tehiya: an All-Star Party
Yuval Neeman: the Wunderkind
Geula Cohen: the Pasionaria of Eretz Yisrael
Raphael Eytan: Power through Strength
Eliezer Waidman: Religious Figurehead
2. Morasha: a Gathering Point for Rabbis
3. Gush Emunim: Spearhead of the Colonization Movement
Moshe Levinger: 'New Frontier' Adventurer Redemption Zionism

III. To Be Jewish . . .

Appendix: The Demographic Issue
Chronology
Maps
Tables
Glossary
Index of Names

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