תג מחיר כביטוי של משבר משטרי

The phenomenon known as “Price Tag” and the process along which it has evolved as a strategy of violent contention, adopted by growing publics and expressing the most severe crisis experienced by the Israeli democracy, stand at the heart of this article. Analysis of such ominous development is based on the political process approach to the study of social movements and contentiouspolitics more broadly, and the study of engagement in political violence and processes of radicalization in particular. The analysis focuses on changes in patterns of interactions and relations between member organizations of the Settlement Movement, between the Movement and the political establishment,and between the Movement and Israeli security, before and primarily following the Disengagement Plan of 2005, to explain the process of cognitive and behavioral radicalization and its expansion. Several ramifications of the Price Tag phenomenon, key of which are threats to the stability of the Israeli liberal democracy and the present judicial revolution, are discussed in the conclusion,including possible ways to cope with these developments