ABSTRACT
Adjustments of Israel's territorial boundaries had been presented due to external forces and this had induced a re-evaluation and rearticulation of Israeliness to fit the new, coerced reality. Paradoxically, the self-image of the Settler sector of Israeli society was less shaken by the implications of the declaration of principles (DOP) than was that of the Unconverted. The stated intention of the DOP was to end the long-standing conflict and to establish peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The Israeli public was faced with conflicting justifications of a new policy which negated many of the values on which Israeli consensus had been built. A. B. Yehoshua, a prominent Leftist author, feared that once the common enemy on which Israeli solidarity had been based was removed, existing repressed rifts would come to the fore and create a crisis. The negative self-image projected by Postzionism would break up Israeli society due to self-disgust.
