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Movement for the Whole Land of Israel

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Summary

An elite, secular ultranationalist organization of writers, intellectuals, poets, generals and kibbutz leaders founded two months after the Six Day War to press for rapid settlement and permanent absorption of all the territories, eclipsed after 1973 by Gush Emunim, into which many of its participants were absorbed (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2278-2450).

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  • Its manifesto, filled with historical imagery and devoid of religious language, declared the whole of Eretz Yisrael now in the hands of the Jewish people and that no government in Israel is entitled to give up this entirety; despite one or two rabbis among its scores of signatories, it was a manifestation of secular ultranationalist Zionism (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2350-2450).
  • It aspired to be neither a mass movement nor a political party but a respected pressure group working through newspaper articles, books and personal contacts with ministers; after the 1973 war it was rapidly eclipsed by Gush Emunim, which aspired to lead a mass movement and transform society’s cultural and ideological foundation (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2350-2450).
  • On the basis of Kookist injunctions to tolerate the religious nonobservance of Jews active in settlement and redemption, Gush Emunim absorbed many of its participants; by 1977 the movement and its newspaper Zot Haaretz had virtually ceased to exist (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2350-2450).
  • Chapter 3 note 1 records that much of the planning and financing of the Hebron-Kiryat Arba operation was actually provided by this movement; many activist Labor Zionist supporters also came to Gush Emunim through it in the mid-1970s (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2750-2900; Chapter 3 notes, lines 3350-3624).
  • Its leaders were among those who met at Tzvi Yehuda Kook’s home in March 1979 to found Tehiya (For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Chapter 3, lines 2850-3000).

For the Land and the Lord: Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Gush Emunim, Tehiya, Eretz Israel, Kiryat Arba

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