Every single attempt has never achieved national dominance of the political system and the reason because they don't have the deep roots in the Israeli ideological system.
"Michael B. Oren" is an American-born Israeli Jews/Israeli historian, author, and a former List of Israeli ambassadors to the United States/Israeli Ambassador to the United States. He has written books, articles, and essays on Middle Eastern history, and is the author of the New York Times best-selling Power, Faith and Fantasy and Six Days of War/Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, which won the Los Angeles Times History Book of the Year Award and the National Jewish Book Award. Oren has been a visiting professor at Harvard University/Harvard, Yale University/Yale, and Georgetown University/Georgetown universities in the United States and at Tel Aviv University/Tel Aviv and Hebrew University/Hebrew universities in Israel. He was a Distinguished Fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem and a contributing editor to The New Republic. The Forward named Oren one of the five most influential American Jews and The Jerusalem Post listed him as one of the world’s ten most influential Jews.
He retired as Ambassador to the United States in 2013, replaced by Ron Dermer.
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Greater Israel is no longer relevant. The whole Israeli political system is in upheaval, and Sharon is riding the wave of that upheaval.
It convinced us that Gaza was not worth holding on to and awakened us to the demographic danger. It took two intifadas for a majority of Israelis to decide that Gaza is not worth it.
If this thing goes off with fairly few hitches, it means it could go smoothly in the West Bank, as well. It will create a precedent that Israel, with very little resistance, removed settlers and redrew its borders.
The importance of (the boycott) is more political and diplomatic than it is financial today.
(Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon is a genius. He is giving the world a taste of what Palestinian sovereignty will look like. It will be chaotic. The Palestinians will find it very difficult to manage.
They don't have the organization behind them. They don't have the money behind them. And they're really based on one issue and one or two personalities and that's not enough to hold an Israeli party together.
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