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Drawing on the period from June 1967 onward, the analysis centers on territorial maximalists and their competing ideas of state frontiers, ranging from Labour Zionism activists to Revisionists, right-wing movements, and secular or religious supporters of Greater Israel, while comparing them with pragmatic and radical expansionists.","Imperial Israel and the Palestinians  \nThe Politics of Expansion  \nNur Masalha  \nPluto P Press  \nLONDON • STERLING, VIRGINIA  \nFirst published 2000 by Pluto Press  \n345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA and 22883 Quicksilver Drive,  \nSterling, VA 20166–2012, USA [www.plutobooks.com](www.plutobooks.com)[ ](www.plutobooks.com)Copyright © Nur Masalha 2000  \nThe right of Nur Masalha to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.  \nBritish Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library  \nISBN 0 7453 1620 4 hbk ISBN 0 7453 1615 8 pbk  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Masalha, Nur, 1957–  \nImperial Israel and the Palestinians : the politics of expansion,  \n1967–2000 / Nur Masalha.  \n[p. cm](p. cm).  \nIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) .  \nISBN 0–7453–1620–4 (hbk.)  \n1. Arab–Israeli conflict—1973–1993 . 2. Arab–Israeli conflict—1993– 3. Zionism—Israel. 4. Israel—Politics and government. 5. Israel–Arab War, 1967—Occupied territories. 6. Israel—Boundaries. I. Title.  \nDS119 .7 .M31395 2000  \n956.04–dc21  \n00–027698  \nDisclaimer:  \nSome images in the original version of this book are not available for inclusion in the eBook.  \nDesigned and produced for Pluto Press by Chase Production Services Typeset from disk by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton  \nPrinted in the European Union by TJ International, Padstow  \nContents  \nAcknowledgments vii  \nIntroduction 1  \n1 Labour Zionism’s ‘Activists’: New Territorial Maximalism  \nand the Whole Land of Israel Movement, 1967–77 28  \n2 Zionist Revisionism and the Likud: From Jabotinsky to  \nNetanyahu 55  \n3 Jewish Fundamentalism, Greater Israel and the  \nPalestinians 105  \n4 The Secular Ultra-nationalists: Parties and Movements of the Far Right 163  \n5 The Public Opinion Debate: Evolving Jewish Attitudes,  \nthe Palestinians and Greater Israel 196  \nEpilogue 219  \nNotes 230  \nSelect Bibliography 260  \nIndex 269  \nAcknowledgements  \nThe support of the Palestine Studies Trust, UK, and the Institute for Palestine Studies (IPS), Washington, DC, is gratefully acknowledged. At IPS, I am particularly grateful to Walid Khalidi, Philip Mattar and Mahmud Swaid, all of whom encouraged me to undertake the project of Zionism and the Palestinians. Among the institutions that made this work possible by helping with source material were the Israel State Archives, the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem, the Jabotinsky Institute in Tel Aviv, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies Library in London. Many friends and colleagues have helped me greatly with logistics, ideas, criticism, material and discussions. Among them I would like to thank Elias ‘Edey, Edward Said, Sa’id Khouri, Ahmad Khalidi, Ahmad Khalifa, Roger van Zwanenberg, Zein Mayasi, David McDowall, Hasib Sabbagh, Peter Colvin, ‘Abbas Shiblak, Israel Shahak, Ghada Karmi, Tim Niblock, Uri Davis, Leila Mantura, Michael Adams, Michael Prior, Sharif Kana’ane, Anis al-Kassim, As’ad Ghanem, Ilan Pappe, Naseer Aruri, Farouq Mardam-Bey and the late Saliba Khamis. Needless to say that I alone am responsible for the book and its shortcomings, as well as translations from Hebrew. Finally, I owe an invaluable debt to my wife, Stephanie, for her insightful comments while this work was being written.  \nIntroduction  \nLand and territory have always been at the heart of the struggle between the Zionist immigrants/settlers and the native Palestinians. To a large extent, the political history of Zionism and the Israeli state has been a description of an ongoing debate over territorial aspirations and concepts of frontiers. 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