The settlements, a fact on the
ground by today, have had considerable effects both on Palestinian life and on
the peace process. Notably, in the quality of irreversible entities, they have
emerged as obstacles before a two-state solution. This article is an attempt to
analyze the settlement activity in the occupied territories through the
Gramscian concept of hegemony. On the first hand, the study will apply the
concept of hegemony to the Israeli settlement policy by demonstrating the
changing political climate within the country and the ideological attitudes
towards the occupied territories. By doing so, the study will seek to reveal
how Israel’s settlement activity has become hegemonic. It will also discuss
whether Israeli policies vis-à-vis the Palestinians in the occupied
territories, which culminated in the First Intifada in 1987, have created a
counter-hegemonic alternative in a Gramscian sense.
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