Bifurcated loyalty and religious actors’ behaviour in democratic politics: the case of post-1967 religious Zionism in Israel

Rubin, Aviad

doi:10.1080/09637494.2014.887358

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“…The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is an important laboratory for evaluating the impact of these conflict frames on political attitudes. This conflict has alternatively been framed as: (1) a material conflict over scarce natural resources in a tiny, resource-starved land (Dowty, 2005; Selby, 2003); (2) a nationalist conflict between competing ethnic groups with distinctive nationalist ideologies for territorially based self-determination (Ghanem, 2010); or (3) a budding religious war between two religious communities (Maoz, 2014; Inbari, 2012; Rubin, 2014). Using a combination of focus groups and surveys of respondents in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, we study the prevalence of these frames among Jewish citizens of Israel, Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCIs), and West Bank Palestinians and their impact on willingness to compromise.…”

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“…Both parties are deeply committed to the holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem/Al-Quds, the division of which is considered as the major obstacle to any future compromise (Maoz, 2014; Inbari, 2012; Fox & Sandler, 2004). Recent empowerment of religious political discourse and agents, specifically the rise of Hamas (Dunning, 2015; Mishal & Sela, 2006) and the prominence of the religious settler movement in Israel (Haklai, 2007; Rubin, 2014), also indicate the significance of this frame.…”

Section: The Israeli–palestinian Conflictmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Framing and fighting: The impact of conflict frames on political attitudes

Canetti

Khatib²,

Rubin

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Journal of Peace Research

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How does the subjective conceptual framing of conflict impact the warring parties’ attitudes towards political compromise and negotiation? To assess strategies for conflict resolution, researchers frequently try to determine the defining dispute of a given conflict. However, involved parties often view the conflict through fundamentally distinct lenses. Currently, researchers do not possess a clear theoretical or methodological way to conceptualize the complexity of such competing frames and their effects on conflict resolution. This article addresses this gap. Using the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as a case study, we run a series of focus groups and three surveys among Jewish citizens of Israel, Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCIs), and Palestinians in the West Bank. Results reveal that three conflict frames are prominent – material, nationalist, and religious. However, the parties to the conflict differ in their dominant interpretation of the conflict. Jewish Israelis mostly frame the conflict as nationalist, whereas Palestinians, in both the West Bank and Israel, frame it as religious. Moreover, these frames impact conflict attitudes: a religious frame was associated with significantly less willingness to compromise in potential diplomatic negotiations among both Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Interestingly, differing frames had no significant impact on the political attitudes of West Bank Palestinians, suggesting that the daily realities of conflict there may be creating more static, militant attitudes among that population. These results challenge the efficacy of material solutions to the conflict and demonstrate the micro-foundations underpinning civilians’ conflict attitudes and their implications for successful conflict resolution.

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Framing and fighting: The impact of conflict frames on political attitudes

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Khatib²,

Rubin

et al. 2019

Journal of Peace Research

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“…Rabbi Kook's attitude to reality was dualistic, contrasting the revealed with the concealed, imagination with reality and the obscure with the sacred. It can be seem to be forced to conclude that thought and logic are insufficient as tools for discovering the essentially perfect and sacred elements of reality: 'Our rational mind is like a young schoolchild who gives a partial explanation of all the light of life that exists in the rich and sacred treasure-house of our imagination, dwelling in higher spheres and defeating substantial reality by the strength of its independent existence' (Rubin, 2014).…”

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Religion and Politics’ in Israel: the Mythology of Jewish Nationalism (until 1993)

Javadikouchaksaraei¹

2017

IJMMU

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The Palestinian-Israeli conflict stemmed from the clash of the loyalty of both sides to the same land, which is the Palestinian territory settled by both the Arabs and the Jews. This paper attempt to survey the role the development of the clash on the territory by elaborating the effects of Jewish immigration, the development of Zionist idea, the mandate period, political factions and the role of Religion and politics in Israel until the Oslo Accords. Thus, the beginning of the conflict and the development of the conflict will be stressed in order to understand the conflicting positions of both sides. These positions aim at helping the reader understand more clearly the deadlock in the peace process.

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“…Religious conflicts may occur when religion is the basis for a group's political ambitions. Religious conflicts may arise between members of the same national group, usually within the same country, as in the case of secular and Orthodox Jews in Israel (Rubin, 2013(Rubin, , 2014. Alternatively, religious conflicts may emanate from ideological differences between religions, whether in different countries or among different religious groups within the same country (Fox, 2004).…”

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Conflict perception: a new scale with evidence from Israel and Palestine

Khatib

Canetti

Rubin

2018

IJCMA

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Purpose The current work aims to introduce the concept of conflict perception and construct a scale that measures individual differences in perceptions about conflicts along religious, national and material dimensions. The concept and the measure are developed in the context of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Design/methodology/approach The research design combines three methodological elements: 14 focus groups in Israel and the West Bank, which represent diversity in place of residence, religion, age and political background; an expert panel review; and a survey of 411 student respondents that was conducted between September 29 and October 9, 2013, among university students in Israel and Palestine. Findings The findings show that conflict perception is an individual’s subjective view regarding the essence of the conflict and its central issues, the identities of the parties involved and their motivations, which may include material, ideological or symbolic motives, or any combination thereof. A novel scale consisting of five statements that can measure conflict perception that was developed, validated and implemented via a survey sample showed that Palestinians in the West Bank and in Israel have a religious perception of the conflict, whereas Jews have a national perception of the conflict. Originality/value First, the paper introduces a new concept that sheds additional light on the micro foundations of peoples’ attitudes in conflict situations. Second, it develops and validates a measurement tool for conflict perception that may be usable, with necessary adjustments, in other conflicts. Third, it demonstrates that parties to the conflict do not necessarily share similar perceptions about the conflict, a finding with far-reaching consequences for conflict resolution at both the scholarly and policy levels.

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Bifurcated loyalty and religious actors’ behaviour in democratic politics: the case of post-1967 religious Zionism in Israel

Cited by 4 publications

References 40 publications

Framing and fighting: The impact of conflict frames on political attitudes

Framing and fighting: The impact of conflict frames on political attitudes

Religion and Politics’ in Israel: the Mythology of Jewish Nationalism (until 1993)

Conflict perception: a new scale with evidence from Israel and Palestine

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