Paper Summary:

This paper focuses on the effects of the 1967 Israeli six-day war upon Israel's society and political scene. The paper explains that, in the pre war era, religious ideology was distinctly separate from the ideology of the state, and the leftwing parties were inclined towards secular Zionism. However, in the post war era, asserts the paper, religion gradually became a central figure in not only the policy making but religious terms were being frequently used in political rhetoric. The paper gives the example that those Israelis who settled in the occupied lands were referred to as "true idealists" and "real pioneers" of Israel.
The paper opines that the Zionist ideology, which once was Israel's source of unification, has outlived its usefulness, and is currently being overstretched by the political and military establishment. The paper concludes that the people of Israel have come a long way to realize that peace with their neighbors cannot be dictated by use of force; and that concrete steps towards reconciliation and compromise must be taken to bring about any radical political and social change.

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The Six-Day War and Its Influence on the Political an Social Culture in Israel
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" Many scholars have argued that the aims and objectives of the Israeli establishment are in complete contradiction to the goals of the peace process that was established in the 1992 Oslo Accord. The same can be said about the other party too, which has time and again called for complete annihilation of Israel from the map of the world. With such hardliners taking control of policy making on both sides, any effort to bring about a change in the current political climate of Middle East will fail to materialize. The Israelis will continue to expand their settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as, the Golan heights. The use of brutal force and naked aggression will continue against the Palestinians. Any thing less than this will be seen not only as a derailment from the Zionist ideology but also betrayal of the Jewish people. The six-day war gave a permanent license to the hawkish state elements to regroup and redefine their ideology and bring it in line with their political aims and objectives (Gordon Haim, 1995)."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Ateek Naim Stifan. Justice and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1989.
• Boulding Elise, ed. Building Peace in the Middle East: Challenges for States and Civil Society. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1994.
• Buber Marin. I and Thou. Translated by Ronald Gregor Smith. New York: Scribner's, 1958.
• Colin Shindler, A History of Modern Israel, Cambridge University Press, New York, paperback edition 2008, pp 1-50
• Gordon Haim. Quicksand: Israel, the Intifada and the Rise of Political Evil in Democracies. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1995.

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