The Confrontation

Abstract

This chapter addresses the second debate cycle, during which the challengers met increasing resistance as the gatekeepers tried to regain power over official memory institutions. The outline of the chapter aligns with the previous one. Hence the cycle is broken down into initial narrative constellation, followed by social interaction between memory agents, ending up in narrative elaboration. In the final sections, the interplay between memory agents and official memory institutions is discussed, moving over to an elaboration on circumstances that may have inhibited further success of the narratives of New History. Again focus is on Israeli intrasocietal relations and debates, however, linked to the interplay with intersocietal processes of relationship and conflict transformation.