Palestine, Zionism, and Empire, Pt. 11: The Fourth Arab-Israeli War or The Rise of Likud

The Intervention

The episode details the events of the Fourth Arab-Israeli War of 1973 (also known as the Yom Kippur War, the Ramadan War, and the October War) and the aftermath in Israels domestic affairs. The sizable amount of Israeli blood spilled provided an opening for what would become the Likud front to articulate a wedding of their revisionist Zionism with the religious Zionism embodied by the organization Gush Emunim.
As we’ve maintained, these ideologies existed among Zionists even before the Mandate period, but here the long line of contingencies led to their ascension. This episode goes a long way to describe the “rise of the right” in Israel and narrates the birth of the modern Likud party of Benjamin Netanyahu.
We mentioned the following recommended listening: Panic at the Border w/ Alex Aviña on The East is a Podcast

Resources:
Answer Coalition
The Anti-Imperialist Archive
Jewish Voices for Peace
Middle East Children's Alliance
The Palestine Children's Relief Fund
Palestinian Youth Movement
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Chapters

1. Chatter Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Introduction/Overview (00:06:49)

3. Fourth Arab-Israeli War (6–25 October 1973 (00:15:36)

4. Post-War Desires and Prediction (00:38:15)

5. Gush Emunim (The Bloc of the Faithful) (00:42:46)

6. Rabbi Moshe Levinger (00:56:15)

7. The Labour Elections of 1973 (00:58:44)

8. Conclusion (Arafat’s November, 1974 Speech at the UN) (01:07:33)

9. Outroduction (01:20:47)