So Arzenu

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So Arzenu ( Hebrew זוֹ אַרְצֵנוּ; This is our country ) was a far-right Jewish organization and protest movement in Israel . It was founded by Schmuel Sackett and Mosche Feiglin in December 1993 in order to curb further land concessions as part of the Oslo peace process after the Oslo Agreement .

history

Zo Artzeinu viewed the Oslo Accords as a violation of Jewish law and political sense. The movement used sit-in strikes and other forms of civil disobedience to protest against the government of Yitzchak Rabin , whom it accused of "selling Israel to the Arabs and forcing the country to go to war". Movement leaders were arrested in September 1995 on charges of inciting riot among settlers in the occupied territories. Feiglin was sentenced to six months' imprisonment, which he served through community service. In his memoir “Where There Are No Men” Feiglin portrays Zo Artzeinu as the moral and tactical equivalent of the American civil rights movement.

Fifty people were injured in a demonstration by So Arzenu on September 14, 1995. After Rabin was shot dead in November 1995, the assassin Jigal Amir was found to have had ties to So Arzenu.

So Arzenu chairman Benjamin Elon won a Knesset seat on the electoral list of the nationalist party Moledet in the 1996 general election . With the policy of the new government in favor of Israeli settlements, the movement consolidated its position in the settler community; some members joined the Jisra'el Beitenu party in 1999 .

literature

  • Moshe Feiglin: Where There Are No Men: Zo Artzeinu's Struggle Against Post-Zionism Collapse. Jewish Leadership, 1999, ISBN 978-965-222-984-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d Claude Faure: "Zu Artzenu" ( Memento from March 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (only the beginning of the article freely readable).
  2. ^ A b Israel's pro-marijuana and right-wing libertarian party. In: Israel today. March 18, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b David Remnick: The Party Faithful. In: The New Yorker. January 21, 2013, accessed November 8, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b To Artzenu | Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved March 29, 2019 .