Making of Israeli Militarism

Name: Making of Israeli Militarism
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ISBN: 9780253333872

ISBN-10: 0253333873

ISBN-13: 9780253333872

Edition: 1998

Authors: Uri Ben-Eliezer

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Uri Ben-Eliezer traces the origins of Israeli militarism, casts a penetrating light on the native born generation that came of age in the 1930s and 40s and touches on the raw nerves that characterise the modern Israeli military state.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 6/22/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Size: 6.42" wide x 9.49" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Uri Ben-Eliezer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Haifa. He is co-author (with Yonathan Shapiro) of The Elements of Sociology.



Preface


Introduction: The "Jewish Problem" and the "Arab Problem"



The Emergence of a Military Way, 1936-1942



Quests



The Formation of Military Structures



The Military Way and Party Politics, 1940-1942



Hakibbutz Hameuhad and the Palmach



Mapai and Enlistment in the British Army



The Military Way as an Ideology, 1942-1944



"In Uniform" and "Without Uniform": Status Struggles



The Holocaust and the Biltmore Declaration: The Demand to Establish a Jewish State by Force



The Military Way and the State-in-the-Making, 1944-1947



Saison: The Imposition of Authority as a Principle



Unification of Forces: The Hebrew Resistance Movement



Militarism and Praetorianism, 1947-1949



Political Praetorianism in Wartime



Militaristic Politics in Wartime



A Nation-in-Arms, 1949-1956



A State Army Constructs a Nation



A Nation Ready for War


Epilogue


Notes


Index