The Growing Militarization of the Israeli Political System

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. This term was used by Yoram Peri, Between Battles and Ballots, Cambridge, 1983, p. 286. 2. Uri Ben-Eliezer, ‘From Military Role-Expansion to Difficulties in Peace-Making: The Israel Defence Forces 50 Years On’, in Daniel Maman, Eyal Ben-Ari and Zeev Rosenhek (eds.), Military, State and Society in Israel, New Brunswick, 2001, p. 141. 3. Uri Ben-Eliezer, ‘From Military Role-Expansion to Difficulties in Peace-Making: The Israel Defence Forces 50 Years On’, in Daniel Maman, Eyal Ben-Ari and Zeev Rosenhek (eds.), Military, State and Society in Israel, New Brunswick, 2001, p. 149. 4. Uri Ben-Eliezer, ‘Do the Generals Run Israel? The Military–Political Linkage and the Legitimacy for War in Nation-in-Arms’, in Hanna Herzog (ed.), A Society in Reflection, Tel Aviv, 2000, p. 245. 5. Uri Ben-Eliezer, ‘Do the Generals Run Israel? The Military–Political Linkage and the Legitimacy for War in Nation-in-Arms’, in Hanna Herzog (ed.), A Society in Reflection, Tel Aviv, p. 261. 6. Baruch Kimmerling, ‘Patterns of Militarism in Israel’, European Journal of Sociology, Vol. 34 (1993), pp. 196–223. 7. Moshe Lissak, ‘Uniqueness and Normalization in Military–Government Relations in Israel’, in Maman et al. (eds.), Military, State and Society in Israel, p. 410. 8. Moshe Lissak, ‘Uniqueness and Normalization in Military–Government Relations in Israel’, in Maman et al. (eds.), Military, State and Society in Israel, p. 412. 9. Stuart A. Cohen, ‘Israel and her Army’, Democratic Culture, Vol. 4–5 (2001), pp. 9–10. 10. Stuart A. Cohen, ‘Israel and her Army’, Democratic Culture, Vol. 4–5 (2001), pp. 10–11. 11. Stuart Cohen, ‘The IDF and Israeli Society: Towards a Functional Contraction in the Army's Role?’, in Moshe Lissak and Baruch Kney-Paz (eds.), Israel Towards the Year 2000, Jerusalem, 1996, pp. 217–218. 12. Yoram Peri, Between Battles and Ballots, Cambridge, 1983, pp. 101–129. 13. Ha'aretz, 15 November 2002. 14. Yohanan Peres, ‘Most Israelis are Committed to Democracy’, Israeli Democracy, No. 1 (February 1987), pp. 16–19; Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, ‘The Israeli Public and its Institutions’, Israeli Democracy, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Fall 1989), pp. 7–11; Yohanan Peres and Ephraim Yuchtman-Yaar, Trends in Israeli Democracy, Boulder, 1992. 15. The details were taken from the Knesset's web-site: http://www.knesset.gov.il. 16. Ha'aretz, 10 November 2002. 17. Ma'ariv, 5 November 2002. 18. Muli Tsafrir, ‘IDF Retired Officers in Israel's Political Parties Primaries 1977–1997’, MA thesis, Bar-Ilan University, 1998. 19. Cohen, ‘The IDF and Israeli Society’, p. 232. Additional informationNotes on contributorsGIORA GOLDBERGGiora Goldberg is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University.