Abstract
Drawing on conversations around issues of morality and politics carried out with Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories during the second Palestinian uprising (during the 2000s), Goodman examines how subjects abandon accepted political standpoints and act politically. He argues that changes in a person’s political views and actions do not happen abruptly as may be conceived following a Christian conversion tale. Furthermore, political and moral matters are not explicitly and clearly expressed in themselves. Often they are mediated within meaningful frameworks: army regulations, being part of a group, and the like. Service in the Israeli military is especially depoliticizing, but he suggests that this point could be applied to other milieus, not only in situations that quite deliberately try to downplay the political.
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