ABSTRACT
The Tsabar virtues of survival and defence could then supplement national historical rights to Erets Yisrael, defiance of the world and tenacity could augment the Judaic values of mutual responsibility and service to the nation as demarcation lines of Israeli identity. Likud offered Palestinians the option of becoming Israeli citizens or foreign residents enjoying cultural autonomy. Fluctuations occurred in support of Likud and of the precepts of New Zionism, while New Zionism and Settler identity were seriously challenged only by the Oslo Accords signed in 1993. The Likud version of New Zionism consisted of the right of Jews to Greater Israel, inalienable because Jews had been there first, as witnessed by the Bible, and because Jews were morally superior to their adversaries. The tactics of the Unified National Command (UNC) and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) explain the gradual change in attitude of some Israeli Unconverted regarding the retention of the occupied territo.
