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Zealotry and Vengeance

Name: Zealotry and Vengeance
Author: Samuel Peleg
ISBN: 9780739103326

by Samuel Peleg

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Overview

On November 4, 1995 the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin left Israeli society shocked and bewildered by the reemergence of religiously motivated political violence in an age of secularism. In Zealotry and Vengeance Samuel Peleg analyzes the social, political, and structural motivations and conditions that have encouraged this resurgence of religious violence. It profiles the rise of the Zionist messianic movement from protest and activism to assassination, and asks whether the killing of Rabin was a fluke or a harbinger of things to come—based on Israeli society's extensive support for the proclivity to violence. The book provides students of political behavior and participation with both a scientific study of the extremist state of mind and an acute analysis of the cycle of violence and tolerance threatening to once again engulf the Middle East.

About the Author, Samuel Peleg

Samuel Peleg teaches at Tel Aviv University and the College of Tel Aviv in Jaffa.

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Editorials

William A. Gamson

This book skillfully uses conflict theory and social movement theory to understand zealotry and vengeance. The author has the courage to analyze the growth of these tendencies in his own Israeli society.

Harvey Starr

From an interdisciplinary perspective, Peleg presents new, seminal observations regarding the connections between societal legitimacy and democracy with domestic conflict. By focusing on religion-based revitalization movements as identity groups, Peleg . . . challenge[s] the adequacy of the Realist state-centric paradigm for the study of conflict and violence in the global system.

Mobilization

Peleg's book is an impressive scholarly work. It is based on a rich theoretical background, with authoritative use of Russell, Arendt, Parsons, Manheim, and Habermas.

Terrorism and Political Violence

The judicious use of a clear theoretical framework, with a strong internal logic, places this composition on a par with the major classical works that attempt to provide an explanation for Jewish political violence in Israel.