Friedman,R. Zealots for Zion. 1992
Friedman, Robert I. Zealots for Zion: Inside Israel's West Bank Settlement
Movement. New York: Random House, 1992. 263 pages.
Robert Friedman, an award-winning writer on U.S. Jewish affairs and the
radical right in Israel, is currently a staff writer at the Village Voice in
New York. This book is mostly about events and personalities in Israel, but
also includes substantial material about the U.S. Zionist lobby that
supports the Israeli settlement movement. The connection between the two
goes beyond financial support, as some of the settlers interviewed by
Friedman are American ex-patriots, burnouts from the 1960s who went looking
for the simple life of Good vs. Evil that eluded them in America when the
counterculture collapsed.
These ex-patriot hippies were given citizenship, massive subsidies, and
Uzi machine guns by the Israeli government, and joined with Zionist natives
to build their middle-class tract homes in locations designed to frustrate
Palestinian dreams of a homeland. It's a hard life in these settlements,
where the major activity centers around raising large families in the Jewish
tradition. Meanwhile, back in the U.S., the American-Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith (ADL) keep
up the pressure. They spy on anyone who dares to believe that Zionism might
be less than Holy, and spend huge sums to lobby Congress and denounce their
enemies as "anti-Semitic."
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