Summary
Beni Katzover, a pioneering-elite leader of Gush Emunim and, in Lustick’s Chapter 5, a leading vanguardist: redemption may be completed soon but is in jeopardy, requiring dramatic fact-creation and defiance of a government that is neither holy nor authoritative (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 5, lines 4619-5618).
Details
- Katzover is named among the pioneering elite (with Hanan Porat) from whom activists find their leaders, as against the public rabbis (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 5, lines 4619-5118).
- As a vanguardist he called for a “return to Sebastia” — a return to the system of struggle of the 1974-1975 settlement attempts — and argued the people is with the movement, which must break from the system (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 5, notes 61 and 64, lines 6678-7677).
- Katzover endorsed collective punishment as a policy for maintaining control over the Arab population: “What we need is collective punishment and harsh measures-so that they learn to fear us” (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 5, lines 6178-6677).
Related pages
For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Gush Emunim, Hanan Porat, Yoel Ben-Nun