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1 On the post-1967 period, see Ian Steven Lustick, Unsettled States, Disputed Lands: Britain and Ireland, France and Algeria, Israel and the West Bank, Gaza (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993), pp. 362-366; Avi Shlaim, War and Peace in the Middle East: A Critique of American Policy (New York: Whittle Books, 1994); Saadia Touval, `Mediators in the Israeli-Arab Conflict: Requisites for Success' in Asher Arian, ed., Israel - A Developing Society (Jerusalem: Academic Press, 1980), pp. 71-77.
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2 Oz Almog, `The Secular Rabbis', Ha'aretz , 29 December 1995, p. 19 (in Hebrew); Sam N. Lehman-Wilzig, Wildfire: Grassroots Revolts in Israel in the Post-Socialist Era (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1992); Avi Gottlieb & Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, `Materialism, Postmaterialism, and Public Views on Socioeconomic Policy: The Case of Israel', in Ernest Krausz, ed., Studies of Israeli Society , vol. 3: Politics and Society in Israel (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books, 1985), pp. 385-412.
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3 Michael Handel, `The Evolution of Israeli Strategy: The Psychology of Insecurity and the Quest for Absolute Security', in Williamson Murray, MacGregor Knox & Alvin Bernstein, eds, The Making of Strategy: Rulers, States, and War (Cambridge University Press, 1994), p. 567.
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4 For example, Yinon Cohen, `War and Social Integration: The Effects of the Israeli-Arab Conflict on Jewish Emigration', American Sociological Review , vol. 53, 1988, pp. 908-918.
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5 This argument is based on Efraim Inbar, `The “No Choice War” Debate in Israel', Journal of Strategic Studies , vol. 12, 1989, pp. 22-37.
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6 Yehuda Ben Meir, Civil-Military Relations in Israel (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995), p. 114; Ian Steven Lustick, Unsettled States (see note 1 above), p. 412.
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7 Abraham Ben-Zvi, `A Changing American-Israel Relationship', in Gad Barzilai et al., eds, The Gulf Crisis and its Global Aftermath (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 180-189.
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8 Moshe Arens, Broken Covenant: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis Between the U. S. and Israel (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), pp. 112-124.
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9 Lustick, Unsettled States, pp. 412-413.
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10 Arens, Broken Covenant , pp. 177-217.
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11 Thomas Friedman, `I Dial Therefore I Exist', New York Times , 29 October 1995, p. 15E.
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12 Efraim Inbar & Shmuel Sandler, `The Diminishing Israeli Deterrent', Israel Studies Bulletin , vol. 7, 1992, pp. 4-7.
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13 Zvi Trop, `What is the Real Meaning of the Defense Budget?', Politica , vol. 26, 1989, pp. 52-53 (in Hebrew).
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14 Ibid., p. 52.
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15 Israel Television broadcast, 14 April 1994.
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16 Aharon Fein, `Voting Trends of Recent Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union', in Asher Arian & Michal Shamir, eds, The Elections in Israel 1992 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1995), pp. 161-173.
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17 Efraim Inbar, `Contours of Israeli New Strategic Thinking', Israel Studies Bulletin , vol. 11, no. 2, 1996, pp. 7-13.
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18 See David Makovsky, Making Peace with the PLO: The Rabin Government's Road to the Oslo Accord (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996), pp. 102-103.
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19 Ma'ariv , 11 May 1995, pp. 4-5; Globs , 31 March 1995, p.44; and Yediot Aharonot , 28 March 1995, p. 9 (Hebrew newspapers).
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20 Anthony Lewis, `Through that Gate', The New York Times , 20 March 1995, p. 17A.
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21 On post-1967 socio-economic interests, see Yagil Levy, Trial and Error: Israel's Route from War to De-Escalation (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1997), pp. 120-131.
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22 See: Jennifer Friedlin, The Textile Industry: from Lodz to Amman, The Jerusalem Post , 8 March 1996 (http://www.jpost.co.il/companies.html); Israel Ministry of Finance, International Division, Structural Reform , 1996 (http://www.macom.co.il/Government/MOF.html); Anthony Ramirez, `After Assassination, Israel is a Fragile Market', The New York Times , 12 October 1995, p. 3F; David Rosenburg, `In Israel, Peace Won't Mean Prosperity', The New York Times (Section 3), 5 March 1995, p. 9; Shlomo Swirski, `Tomorrow' in Uri Ram, ed., Israeli Society: Critical Perspectives (Tel Aviv: Breirot, 1993) pp. 362-363 (in Hebrew).
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23 Data on public opinion in Israel are drawn from Asher Arian, The Peace Process and Terror: Conflicting Trends in Israeli Public Opinion in 1995 (Tel Aviv University, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1995); Israeli Security Opinion, February 1996 (Tel Aviv University, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1996).
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24 Asher Arian, Israeli Security Opini˙on, February 1996 (Tel Aviv University, Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies, 1996), p. 6.
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25 On the Jewish settlers, see Ian Steven Lustick, Unsettled States (note 1 above), pp. 386-395.
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26 For evidence, see Clyde Haberman, `Israel's Army, Once Sacrosanct, Is Now Becoming Deglamourized', The New York Times , 31 May 1995, p. 10A; Naomi Levitsky, `The IDF Closed Its Eyes', Yediot Aharonot Yom Kippur Supplement , 22 September 1996, pp. 19-21 (in Hebrew).
