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Extremism and Violence in Israel: The Crisis of Messianic Politics

This article surveys the areas of traditional extremism and violence in Israeli politics. It shows that the recent intensification of political violence, culminating in the 1994 Hebron massacre and the 1995 Rabin assassination, was caused by the post-1967 rise of religious messianic politics in Israel and the difficulties of messianic settlers in coping with the realities of the peace process. Muslim terrorism, conducted by the Palestinian opposition to the peace process, is shown to be an additional incentive for Jewish religious terrorism. The article concludes that the Rabin assassination has traumatized the messianic Right and has contributed to a significant decline in its political violence.

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 555, No. 1, 114-126 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/0002716298555001008


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