Secular Labor Zionism, not religious parties, initiated settlement and annexation

Evidence

It is true that the shift started a few years after the occupation of the West Bank and coincided with the encounter with Jewish holy sites. Nevertheless, the fact that the settlement project in the West Bank was started immediately after the occupation, by the Labor Party - the leader of “secular” Zionism at the time - and that East Jerusalem and several nearby Palestinian towns and villages were annexed to Israel within days of their occupation “in contravention of international law” by the “secular” Zionist leadership illustrates that it 36 The first settlement was established in 1968. — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 519

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s interest: the sacralizing party here is the ‘secular’ actor, complicating the assumption that religious conviction drives expansionist politics — echoes the conviction-versus-behavior divergence theme. — connects to: Religious Zionism’s territorial claims were not a revival of old Jewish settlement ideology — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 359; Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it

Broader Connections

• Religious Zionism’s territorial claims were not a revival of old Jewish settlement ideology #complicates (0.75) — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized, 359
• Secular Zionism reinterpreted theology rather than departing from it #contradicts (0.70)