From repression to facilitation: The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank, 1967-1987

Hillel Frisch

doi:10.1080/09546559608427330

From repression to facilitation: The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank, 1967-1987

Hillel Frisch

Department of Political Studies

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

Israel, it is widely believed, instituted 'iron-fisted' policies to cope with increasing Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank and Gaza after the Likud's rise to power in 1977. The article challenges this assumption and demonstrates that Israeli repression of the Palestinian national movement decreased between 1973 and 1987 even though Palestinian resistance increased. While it agrees with Beitler that some of this reduction was due to a change in the mode of Palestinian mobilization, it argues that it was also due to a fundamental change in the mode of Israeli rule. Israel after 1977, by concentrating on state expansion rather than on control of a hostile population, not only reduced suppression but actually facilitated Palestinian mobilization for part of that period. The article analyzes the contradictions stemming from policies designed to control populations and policies focusing on state expansion.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-21
Number of pages	21
Journal	Terrorism and Political Violence
Volume	8
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/09546559608427330
State	Published - 1996

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
I thank the Levy Eshkol Institute for Economics, Society and Policy and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for financial support for this study.

Funding

I thank the Levy Eshkol Institute for Economics, Society and Policy and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for financial support for this study.

Funders	Funder number
Levy Eshkol Institute for Economics, Society and Policy
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace

RAMBI Publications

RAMBI Publications
Munaẓẓamat al-Taḥrīr al-Filasṭīnīyah
Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1967-
Palestinian Arabs -- West Bank -- History -- 20th century
Israel -- Politics and government -- 1967-

Access to Document

10.1080/09546559608427330

Cite this

@article{c70d84547cdb4dc7b2fabd8e930d94cc,

title = "From repression to facilitation: The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank, 1967-1987",

abstract = "Israel, it is widely believed, instituted 'iron-fisted' policies to cope with increasing Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank and Gaza after the Likud's rise to power in 1977. The article challenges this assumption and demonstrates that Israeli repression of the Palestinian national movement decreased between 1973 and 1987 even though Palestinian resistance increased. While it agrees with Beitler that some of this reduction was due to a change in the mode of Palestinian mobilization, it argues that it was also due to a fundamental change in the mode of Israeli rule. Israel after 1977, by concentrating on state expansion rather than on control of a hostile population, not only reduced suppression but actually facilitated Palestinian mobilization for part of that period. The article analyzes the contradictions stemming from policies designed to control populations and policies focusing on state expansion.",

author = "Hillel Frisch",

note = "Funding Information: I thank the Levy Eshkol Institute for Economics, Society and Policy and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for financial support for this study.",

year = "1996",

doi = "10.1080/09546559608427330",

language = "אנגלית",

volume = "8",

pages = "1--21",

journal = "Terrorism and Political Violence",

issn = "0954-6553",

publisher = "Routledge",

number = "1",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - From repression to facilitation

T2 - The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank, 1967-1987

AU - Frisch, Hillel

N1 - Funding Information: I thank the Levy Eshkol Institute for Economics, Society and Policy and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for financial support for this study.

PY - 1996

Y1 - 1996

N2 - Israel, it is widely believed, instituted 'iron-fisted' policies to cope with increasing Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank and Gaza after the Likud's rise to power in 1977. The article challenges this assumption and demonstrates that Israeli repression of the Palestinian national movement decreased between 1973 and 1987 even though Palestinian resistance increased. While it agrees with Beitler that some of this reduction was due to a change in the mode of Palestinian mobilization, it argues that it was also due to a fundamental change in the mode of Israeli rule. Israel after 1977, by concentrating on state expansion rather than on control of a hostile population, not only reduced suppression but actually facilitated Palestinian mobilization for part of that period. The article analyzes the contradictions stemming from policies designed to control populations and policies focusing on state expansion.

AB - Israel, it is widely believed, instituted 'iron-fisted' policies to cope with increasing Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank and Gaza after the Likud's rise to power in 1977. The article challenges this assumption and demonstrates that Israeli repression of the Palestinian national movement decreased between 1973 and 1987 even though Palestinian resistance increased. While it agrees with Beitler that some of this reduction was due to a change in the mode of Palestinian mobilization, it argues that it was also due to a fundamental change in the mode of Israeli rule. Israel after 1977, by concentrating on state expansion rather than on control of a hostile population, not only reduced suppression but actually facilitated Palestinian mobilization for part of that period. The article analyzes the contradictions stemming from policies designed to control populations and policies focusing on state expansion.

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0030521020&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://uli.nli.org.il/discovery/search?query=issn,exact,0954-6553&tab=LibraryCatalog&search_scope=MyInstitution&vid=972NNL_ULI_C:MAIN

U2 - 10.1080/09546559608427330

DO - 10.1080/09546559608427330

M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontojournal.article???

AN - SCOPUS:0030521020

SN - 0954-6553

VL - 8

SP - 1

EP - 21

JO - Terrorism and Political Violence

JF - Terrorism and Political Violence

IS - 1

ER -

From repression to facilitation: The effects of Israeli policies on Palestinian mobilization in the West Bank, 1967-1987

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Funding

RAMBI Publications

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this