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Scroll Or the Sword ?
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Digital militarism : Israel's occupation in the social media age
Israel's occupation has been transformed in the social media age. Over the last decade, military rule in the Palestinian territories grew more bloody and entrenched. In the same period, Israelis became some of the world's most active social media users. In Israel today, violent politics are interwoven with global networking practices, protocols, and aesthetics. Israeli soldiers carry smartphones into the field of military operations, sharing mobile uploads in real-time. Official Israeli military spokesmen announce wars on Twitter. And civilians encounter state violence first on their newsfeeds and mobile screens.
Across the globe, the ordinary tools of social networking have become indispensable instruments of warfare and violent conflict. This book traces the rise of Israeli digital militarism in this global context—both the reach of social media into Israeli military theaters and the occupation's impact on everyday Israeli social media culture. Today, social media functions as a crucial theater in which the Israeli military occupation is supported and sustained.
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Civil-military relations in Israel
This book, a collection of essays in honor of Stuart Cohen, examines a variety of issues in civil-military relations (CMR) in Israel and abroad.Beyond honoring Cohen's work, this collection makes a substantial contribution to the field for a number of reasons.
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The Scroll or the Sword?
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Palestine Conflict and the Militarization Of the Middle East
The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute has found that, from 2016-2020, five of the top ten arms importing states were Arab Middle Eastern and North African states: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Algeria, Qatar and the UAE. As a result of past, current or anticipated conflicts or domestic control uses, Middle Eastern states generally have armies that are over-sized in relation to their population, compared to other regions. The Egyptian army is 340,000 strong; Israel's regular armed forces number 169,500 with 465,000 reservists on stand-by when needed. Here, Gee discusses the militarization of the Middle east.
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Israel Is Engineering Starvation to Redefine the Meaning of Life For Palestinians
The starvation crisis in Gaza is simply understood as a humanitarian catastrophe or a war crime. While these descriptions are not incorrect, they are incomplete. The crisis unfolding in Gaza is more than Israel using hunger as a weapon; it is a calculated biopolitical project. Shutting down borders, restricting aid supply, and opening fire on people gathered for aid are all part of a strategy designed not just to destroy bodies, but to redefine the meaning of life itself for Palestinians. Israel is employing starvation to single-handedly dictate who and how many are allowed to live, and under what conditions, similar to what has historically been done during the Namibian genocide by the German empire in the early 20th century and the siege of Leningrad during World War II by the German forces. Similarly, at present, Israel's strategy is not accidental; it was announced. In Aug 2024, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich asserted that it might be moral and just to starve the two million population of Gaza to retrieve hostages, but no one in the world would let that happen.
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The sword and the olive : a critical history of the Israeli defense force
Combining razor-sharp analysis with dramatic narrative, vivid portraits of soldiers and commanders with illuminating discussions of battle tactics and covert actions,The Sword and the Olivetraces the history of the IDF from its beginnings in Palestine to today. The book also goes beyond chronology to wrestle with the political and ethical struggles that have shaped the IDF and the country it serves-struggles that are manifesting themselves in the recent tragic escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Often revisionist in attitude, surprising in many of its conclusions, this book casts new light on the struggle for peace in the Middle East.
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The New Citizen Armies
This edited book constitutes the first detailed attempt at a comparative international analysis of the transformations that are currently affecting the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and their place in Israeli society.
Focusing primarily on deviations from the traditional norm of universal military service, the book compares the emergence of a new type of \"citizen army\" in Israel with the formats that have in recent decades become evident in other western democracies. In addition, these essays correct the conventional tendency to concentrate almost exclusively on the influences stimulating military institutional change in the West, and thereby to overlook the equally important factors that retard its momentum. By contrast, this volume deliberately highlights the brakes as well as the accelerators in current processes, thereby presenting a far more faithful picture of their complexity.
This book will be of much interest to students of Israeli politics, military studies, Middle Eastern politics, security studies and IR in general.
Stuart Cohen is a senior research associate of the BESA (Begin-Sadat) Center for Strategic Studies and also teaches political studies at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. His most recent book is Israel and its Army: From Cohesion to Confusion (Routledge, 2008).
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