When did Revisionist Zionism eclipse Labor Zionism and why?

>>1983673

Because the idea of a socialist secular explicitly ethno religious state is ridiculous and contradictory

Yitzhak Rabin assasination

>>1983673
(((They))) control the Israeli government.

"A state for the Jews" vs "a Jewish state" as the original argument was co-opted by a small mix of theocrats and a large mix of American-based neoconservatives in order to establish a strong and powerful Jewish state. This coincides with the rise of Neoconservatives in the U.S., early 70's through to the turn of the century.

The theocratic argument is straight forward, but only appeals to a small group, so the Revisionists have made the argument that neither a Jewish state nor State for the Jews could exist without a more aggressive and ideologically pure state.

In doing so, the theocrats have been carried to power on the backs of sophisticated and extremely security institutions. The Left has been gutted by both losing the argument and the force of the security state, and events of the last 50 years have worked to convince people that arguments about how to carry out Zionism are either distractions or dangerous undermining of Israel. A coercive state has driven media and society to label some topics off the table until the security situation improves.

Now, the security apparatus runs the country. Their goal is a secure Israel but they need security threats to keep their argument going and to remain in power. The Left Zionists can only discuss their goals and ideals on a narrow band of topics which is destroying the relevance of Leftism.

The main question now is how to achieve a lasting, peaceful Zionism, a question that can't even be conceived by the government.

>>1983757

*extremely coercive security institutions

>>1983673

>When

Since the first Likud victory of 1977.

>Why

Not sure, some ideas:

>strengthening ties with the right wing US
>failure to achieve peace with the Arabs
>weakening of Labor due to scandals and internal conflicts (Peres-Rabin rivalry)

Racism. That's really it. They take a harder stance on palestinians, and israelis hate palestinians.

>>1983673
Begin was just that based. Six-day war probably played a factor as well.

>>1983757
>Now, the security apparatus runs the country. Their goal is a secure Israel but they need security threats to keep their argument going and to remain in power.
Exactly this, a Spartan society needs an enemy to justify itself. I visited Israel in 2004 and all anyone would talk about was how syria was the mortal enemy Israel needed to be on guard against. I went again recently and now all anyone does is use those exact same words about Iran.