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Elisabeth Altman, B. Rosenbaum (1973)
Principles of Planning and Zionist Ideology: The Israeli Development TownJournal of The American Planning Association, 39
Lest anyone be misled by the Fredman-Rubinstein âresponseâ, the gist of my original paper was as follows. In the early 1980s the Liberal government in Australia began reappraising its Middle East policy which had hitherto been strongly pro-Israel. One of the deterrents to a major, publicized policy shift seems to have been the governmentâs fear of losing Jewish votes and electioneeringfunds. Electoral analysis indicated that Jewish voters are highly concentrated and could have been influential in determining the outcome of only three seats in the then-approaching 1983 federal election. Nevertheless, in a tight election the Jewish voting response to a more âevenhandedâ Middle East policy might have been significant, although this response would have been tempered to the extent that Jews are influenced by socio-economic factors applying to the Australian electorate in general. By contrast, the Moslem vote, being âwastedâin safe Opposition seats, could not have influenced the Liberal governmentâs chances in 1983. It will be seen that the purpose of my paper was an exercise in political geography-a spatial analysis of electoral patterns and their implications-and not a discussion of m the rights and wrongs of Israeli policy, a subject on which I a the first to
Australian Journal of Politics and History – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 1984
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