Book contents
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- The 1950s
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2023
- Israel
- Israel
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- The Cartoonists Featured
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Jews: Caricatures, Cartoons, Comics
- Zionism: Ideology and the Building of the State
- Before Israel: the Road to 1948
- A History of Israel: 1949–2020
- The 1950s
- The 1960s
- The 1970s
- The 1980s
- The 1990s
- The 2000s
- 2000
- 2001
- 2002
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- 2006
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- The 2010s
- Collections of Works of Early Israeli Cartoonists
- Index
Summary
The election victory of the Likud, which won thirty-eight seats to Labour’s nineteen, was a resounding vote of confidence in Ariel Sharon and his handling of the al-Aqsa Intifada. His opponent, Amram Mitzna, the former mayor of Haifa, put forward a dovish platform which featured a willingness to unilaterally withdraw from the West Bank and to engage in negotiations with Arafat. In the midst of an ongoing campaign of suicide bombing, such an approach did not resonate with the Israeli voter and marked the diminution of Labour’s centrality in the political arena – even though Mitzna criticised Sharon for not moving faster to construct a security barrier.
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- IsraelA History in 100 Cartoons, pp. 296 - 299Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023