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Exploring New Perspectives

Israeli Civil Mobilization and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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Civil Organizations and Protest Movements in Israel

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Abstract

In May 2008, Israel celebrated its sixtieth birthday with official ceremonies and popular events. At the same time Palestinians in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza commemorated the Nakba, as they name the “catastrophe” of the creation of the Israeli state in 1948. Sixty years after the establishment of the State of Israel, Israeli society is fragmented, socioeconomic tensions are strengthening, the crisis of trust in politics and politicians is culminating, and the Zionist myth of the Sabra, the new idealistic Israeli citizen, has been contested Arab citizens, who composed nearly twenty percent of the Israeli population, are not integrated in a state which defines itself as “Jewish and democratic,” and no peace solution with the Palestinians seems realistic in the near future.

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Marteu, E. (2009). Exploring New Perspectives. In: Marteu, E. (eds) Civil Organizations and Protest Movements in Israel. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230621749_1

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