The removal of the Israeli settlements in Sinai: an ambiguous resolution of an existential conflict

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This article discusses the nature and meaning of the removal of Israeli settlements from Sinai as required by the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. The author considers the removal an ambiguous resolution of a basic existential conflict over whether Israel is a secular, "legal-rational" state versus a religious, traditional one, with the key issues being the relative importance of two Zionist values: territorial expansion and peace. Speculating that those conducting and resisting the removal actually collaborated somewhat in the protest so as to signal that the removal was not a precedent for future Israeli withdrawals, the author finds that Israel's existential conflict has only deepened and predicts that a bitter struggle will occur when peace negotiations involving the West Bank begin. The article concludes with comparisons of the Sinai removal to other forms of human migration, indicating its lack of true historical parallels. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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Here and there: the phenomenology of settlement removal from Northern Sinai

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In discussing the removal of Israeli settlers from Sinai before its return to Egypt, this article examines the sense of place with respect to a general perspective and the Israeli context. The author examines loss of place, placelessness, and rootlessness; humiliation, distress, and alienation; losing one's past, present, and future sense of place; attaining a sense of place; and continuity and change in the sense of place. Sixty families of evacuees were interviewed, with interviews held in 1980 and 1982 before the evacuation, and interviews with more than one-third of the subjects held in 1984, nearly two years after evacuation. The author concludes that the Sinai settlers had created a world with a vivid spirit of place, which some tried to replicate in their new communities with only partial success. The major obstacle to the continuity of a sense of place is hypothesized to be failure in the economic domain. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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The movement to stop the withdrawal in Sinai: a sociological perspective

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This article analyzes the Movement to Stop the Withdrawal (MSW) and its efforts to provoke controversy in Israeli society over the evacuation of Israeli settlements from Sinai, a condition of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. The authors present the MSW as a messianic movement and discuss its context and ultimate aims, especially regarding the geopolitical conflict between traditional Judaism and modern Zionism. The article addresses the MSW's background, links with Gush Emunim - a movement seeking to restore the "greater Land of Israel" promised in the Bible - and environment. The authors note that the case of the MSW highlights divisions in Israeli society between "hawks and doves' and especially between the secular and religious segments of the population. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

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