Abstract
Abstract Gush Emunim has been characterized as a messianic movement whose radicalism stems from eschatological categories and imperatives. This image has been fostered by both journalistic reports and academic analyses of the movement. The popular conception of the settlers as fanatic messianists propelled to activist tactics and even to violence in order to advance the process of Redemption and to “force the End” was strengthened in recent years by the disclosure in 1984 of a Jewish underground, whose leaders and key members were central figures in Gush Emunim. The plan to blow up the mosques on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem in order to spur the redemptive process onward (which was conceived by, and only known to, a few underground members and which in the end was abandoned) reinforced the messianic image of Gush Emunim.
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