Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
35,2 (2020) 37-57
Keywords:
Israel.
;
Palestinian Arabs
;
Arab-Israeli conflict
;
Israel Armed Forces
;
Military police
Abstract:
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) routinely rotate ground forces in and out of the Occupied Territories in the West Bank. While these troops are trained for soldiering in high-intensity wars, in the Territories they have long had to carry out a variety of policing activities. These activities often exist in tension with their soldierly training and ethos, both of which center on violent encounters. IDF ground forces have adapted to this situation by maintaining a hierarchy of ‘logics of action’, in which handling potentially hostile encounters takes precedence over other forms of policing. Over time, this hierarchy has been adapted to the changed nature of contemporary conflict, in which soldiering is increasingly exposed to multiple forms of media, monitoring, and juridification. To maintain its public legitimacy and institutional autonomy, the IDF has had to adapt to the changes imposed on it by creating multiple mechanisms of force generation and control of soldierly action.
DOI:
10.3167/isr.2020.350204
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