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- Title
MISSOURI ZION, MISSOURI INTIFADA: MORMONISM, ZIONISM AND THE PALESTINE CONFLICT.
- Authors
St. John Stott, Graham
- Abstract
The roots of Palestinian-Israeli conflict are often thought to be essentially religious or nationalistic, but such accounts miss the juridical nature of the conflict's origins. The potential for conflict in different understandings of law can be seen in a parallel to the Zionist immigration to Palestine: the Mormon movement to western Missouri. In Jackson County those who had come earlier to the frontier reacted violently to the Mormon threat to pre-emptive rights. In Palestine too, it is argued, the violence followed from differing concepts of legitimate land use, with (as in Missouri) one side relying on title and the other on custom.
- Subjects
JACKSON County (Miss.); PALESTINE; MISSOURI; ARAB-Israeli conflict, 1993-; EMIGRATION &; immigration; ZIONISM; CHURCH of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; LAND use
- Publication
Holy Land Studies: A Multidisciplinary Journal (Edinburgh University Press), 2007, Vol 6, Issue 1, p7
- ISSN
1474-9475
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/hls.2007.0021