Table of Contents

1. Framework of Analysis: Identifying a Society’s Changing Belief System 2. Jewish Belief Systems in Perspective: Traditional and Zionist Ideologies 3. The Evolution of New Zionism 4. The Delegitimisation of Socialist Zionism: the Domestic Politics of a Nation in the Making 5. Foreign Policy and Delegitimisation: Socialist Zionism in the Aftermath of the Six-Day War 6. The Process of Transvaluation: Changing Patterns of Political Culture and Foreign Policy 7. New Zionism and Models of Foreign Policy Conduct: the Application of the Idealistic-Initiating Model to the Foreign Policy of Likud 8. Changes in the New Zionist Belief System in the Aftermath of the Lebanon War 9. Conclusions. Appendix. The Decision to Invade Lebanon: Chronological Survey

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Ofira Seliktar