ABSTRACT
Like other parts of the Middle East, historical Palestine has witnessed the dramatic growth of various Islamist movements. In the Occupied Territories, the Islamization of social, economic, and political institutions is accelerating. Inside Israel, the conditions of the Islamist movement are completely different than in the Occupied Territories. Working amidst a Muslim minority inside a Jewish state, the movement has been forced to select aims and methodology far different from those of Islamic movements elsewhere. The Muslim Brothers in the West Bank integrated with the Muslim Brothers in Jordan to become the Jordanian Ikhwan. Other political factions with supporters in the West Bank demonstrated the same trend in that period. The 1967 reunification of the land of historic Palestine under a single political power was one of the most significant outcomes of the third Arab-Israeli War. The political movements in the West Bank and Gaza, including the Islamist movement, were also united.
