Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada Political Opportunities Framing Processes and Contentious Politics 1st Edition by Eitan Alimi, William Gamson 0415385601 9780415385602

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ISBN 10: 0415385601

ISBN 13: 9780415385602

Author: Eitan Alimi, William A. Gamson

As the Palestinian/Israeli conflict continues to be of major importance in the Middle East, this book employs a new agency approach to understanding the conflict, examining the unprecedented challenge mounted by Palestinian insurgents to Israeli military rule in the West Bank and Gaza between 1987 and 1992. In particular the book discusses how the Palestinians learned about their occupier and how knowledge of Israeli political divisions were used, as well as exploring the various ways in which oppression led to shared grievances and discontent, and the development of organizations to maintain the Intifada. It has received an award by the Israeli Political Science Association for the best book on Israeli politics in English.

Table of contents:

1 Constructing political opportunity
Marx, Simmel, and Weber
Karl Marx (1818–83)
Georg Simmel (1858–1918)
Max Weber (1864–1920)
Social Constructionism and Neo-Marxism
A paradigmatic synthesis
Resource mobilization – rational actor model for social justice
Frame, framing, and the structure of political opportunities
Constructing political opportunity
A new, yet unfinished agenda
What’s next?

2 The why question of the Intifada
The structuring of Palestinian discontent
Order and justice
Estrangement and unity
Equality and inequality
The rise of the rebellious man
Constructing a territories-based Palestinian we-ness
A diversified Palestinian collective actor

3 The how question of the Intifada
An externally-based mobilization
An externally-based nationalism
An externally-based Islam
An externally-based Communism
Repressive structure and warring agents
An internally-based mobilization
Mobilizing the mass – the Labor Movement
The ascendancy of the local arena
The formation of a territories-based nationalism

4 The when question of the Intifada
Delineating the Palestinian contentious arena
Cracks in the Israeli second republic
Knowing your antagonist
Constructing political opportunity
Jews against Jews
A perceptual linkage
Threat/opportunity – beyond repression and facilitation
Activating commitment – discourse in contention

5 The Intifada: tactics for expanding political opportunities
Repertoire of action: innovative action and innovative repression
Mobilizing structure: coalition formation, competition and intra-conflict
Framing contention: diffusion, events and radicalization
Inward framing: the local level
Outward framing: from the state level to the regional level and to the international level

6 Conclusion and the future of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Task one: bringing it all together
Task two: theories of collective action
Political processes and dynamics of contention
Framing processes
Political opportunity structures
Transgressive and contained contention
The effect of contingencies on contention
Task three: the future of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict

7 Postscript: The contentious 1990s and the 2000 Intifada
The why question of the 2000 Intifada
The how question of the 2000 Intifada
The when question of the 2000 Intifada

Methodological appendix
Conceptualizing Israeli crisis-events
Moti Ashkenazi’s protest (February 10, 1974)
Gush Emunim’s settlement in Sebastia
The officers’ letter (March 7, 1978)
Yamit evacuation (April 21, 1982)
Peace Now demonstrations against the Beirut siege and the Sabra and Shatila massacre
Emil Grinzweig’s assassination (February 10, 1983)
The General Security Service (SHABAK) Affair
The uncovering of the Jewish Underground (April 27, 1984)
Measuring Palestinian construction of political opportunity
In-depth interviews
Interviewees (pseudonyms)
Interview schedule
Content analysis
Coding sheet – time period: 1974–86
Coding sheet – time period: 1987

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