Language:
English
Year of publication:
2003
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies
Angaben zur Quelle:
8,1 (2003) 130-152
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Arab-Israeli conflict 1948-
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
;
Israel Social conditions
Abstract:
In Israel, spokesmen of the Right use Holocaust imagery in their rhetoric against any version of the doctrine of "territories for peace" and against government initiatives to forfeit territories occupied in 1967. The "Greater Israel Movement" made especially extensive use of this imagery. Traces the use of Holocaust images by public figures such as Yitzhak Tabenkin in 1967-71, as well as Menahem Begin, Moshe Shamir, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ariel Sharon, and others. Some of them (e.g. Tabenkin) have maintained that any territorial forfeiture on the part of Israel would inevitably lead to another holocaust, worse than the Nazi Holocaust. For Begin, the Holocaust was a reason to occupy all of the Land of Israel and to strengthen the Israeli armed forces. In the 1990s, during the period of the peace process, rightists compared leftist governments to "Judenrats" and used Holocaust imagery to reproach the USA for a lack of support of Israel.
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