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Sociologists generally agree that people become involved in various forms of protest after experiencing dissatisfaction, frustration or a sense of ‘relative deprivation’.1 This observation is often backed by accounts of peasant revolts, workers’ strikes, bread riots and the like. In these cases, the source of dissatisfaction is usually obvious and it comes as no surprise when frustrations become manifest in collective action. Such action ranges from sporadic acts of protest to full-fledged revolution. Although sustained protest only rarely develops into revolution, it may develop into a social movement — a sustained form of collective action aimed at rectifying perceived ‘defects’ in society.2
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See Barry McLaughlin (ed.), Studies in Social Movements (New York: The Free Press, 1969)
and J. A. Banks, The Sociology of Social Movements (London: Macmillan Press, 1972).
Charles Tilly, From Mobilization to Revolution (London: Addison-Wesley, 1978).
S.N. Eisenstadt, The Transformation of Israeli Society: An Essay in Interpretation (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1985) p. 45.
R. J. Isaac, Israel Divided: Ideological Politics in the Jewish State (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1976) p. 5.
Gwyn Rowley, ‘The Land of Israel: A Reconstructionist Approach’, in David Newman (ed.), The Impact of Gush Emunim: Politics and Settlement in the West Bank (London: Croom Helm, 1985) p. 125.
Kurt Kanowitz, ‘The Role of the Army in Israeli Politics’, New Outlook August-September 1984, p. 11.
Ofira Seliktar, New Zionism and the Foreign Policy System of Israel (London: Croom Helm, 1986) p. 206.
For an in-depth study of this process see: Lilly Weissbrod, ‘Delegitimation and Legitimation as a Continuous Process: A Case Study of Israel’, Middle East Journal vol. 35, no. 4, 1981, pp. 527–43.
S. Aronson and N. Yanai, ‘Critical Aspects of the Elections and their Implications’, in D. Caspi et al. (eds), The Roots of Begin’s Success (London: Croom Helm, 1984) p. 28.
Amos Oz, In the Land of Israel (London: The Hogarth Press, 1983) p. 133.
Ora Namir interviewed by Mark Segal, The Jerusalem Post 23 September, 1985.
Eti Rond, ‘The Battle Over Temple Mount’, New Outlook vol. 27, no. 2, February 1984, pp. 11–14.
W. Laqueur, A History of Zionism (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972s) p. 303.
On the growth of Revisionism see L. Brenner, The Iron Wall: Zionist Revisionism from Jabotinsky to Shamir (London: Zed Books, 1984).
M. J. Aronoff, ‘Political Polarization: Contradictory Interpretations of Israeli Reality’, in S. Heydemann (ed.), The Begin Era: Issues in Contemporary Israel (London: Westview Press, 1984) p. 54.
On the role of Dash in ending Labour’s rule see H. R. Penniman (ed.)., Israel at the Polls: The Knesset Elections of 1977 (Washington: AEIPRP, 1979).
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Hall-Cathala, D. (1990). Upsetting the Balance. In: The Peace Movement in Israel, 1967–87. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09899-6_1
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