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In this presentation,I will examine the Israeli political culture,which has molded political struggles in Israeli-Jewish society over the future of the territories that Israel occupied in 1967,especially the West Bank,and settlement activities there.Although the logic of state requires clear demarcation of space by borders,this political culture has constituted the settlement aspiration and territorial obsession of Israeli Jewish society and stimulated its socio-territorial expansion into the Occupied Territories.Therefore,Israeli politics regarding the Occupied Territories and Jewish settlements cannot be characterized by the “crisis” caused by messianic settlement movement called Gush Emunim and its splinters,as often argued by the mainstream Israeli scholars.Such explanations are merely a part of the exhausting Zionist’s efforts to hide the ethno-nationalistic,settler-colonial nature of Zionism and the State of Israel,presenting the latter as “Western” and “democratic”.It will be argued that the real issue regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been,since (even before) the establishment of the State of Israel,the ethno-centric Zionist ideology and practices of creating the Jewish ethno-national state in Erets Israel/Palestine without or with minimum number of indigenous population.The creeping annexation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip after 1967 thus just fastened the time when Zionists face this crucial but inevitable political-moral question.In the presentation,I will first discuss a territorial aspect of nationalism.After that,I will explain the theory of settler-immigrant society and criteria and advantages of applying it to the case of the Jewish society in Palestine/Israel.Then,I will discuss what kind of political culture was formed from a mixture of ethno-nationalism and settler-immigrant character of the society and how it has molded political struggles over the Occupied Territories.