Contending Approaches to Security in Israel: 1948-2000, MSc Thesis, METU (original) (raw)
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Israel's Societal Security Dilemma and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
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Critical Studies in Security, 2021
Settler colonial theory has made a hugely significant contribution to the theorisation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, but there is a danger that its application to the specific practice of security coordination could simply render the practice as an instrument of settler colonial rule. In this article, we would like to propose the important qualification that Coordination is, in practice, deeply conflicted and subject to multiple internal pressures, which extend from elites to public opinion. In accepting that Coordination can be appropriately viewed through a settler colonial lens, we would like to argue that it can also be viewed from ‘below’, and as an object of domestic political struggle that is implicated in legitimisation processes. Coordination is therefore simultaneously renounced and retained as part of the survival strategy of assorted elite groups. In order to demonstrate this, we reference Elite theory, interviews and online materials. Moreover, internal Palestinian divides suggest that opposition is more incomplete, partial and reactive within the neoliberal and settler colonial context.
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Israel's obstinance has awoken atrocious forces in Zionist politics, unwilling to accept anything but the erasure of Palestine. Statesmanship and political wisdom focused on the long term, however, should be a clear priority in the interest of everyone’s self-preservation. Forced peace remains the best guarantee, not only for Israel’s security and survival but also for the safety of Israel’s friends and enemies. But since this cannot be expected under the current circumstances, Israel will not get peace — mainly because of its own misdeeds — and the surrounding region will therefore even less so. Therefore, wars with Israel are bound to continue, with perhaps intermediate periods of less violence. This is a long-term reality that must be seriously taken into account. The Israeli slogan shalom, or peace, has proven to be a completely empty phrase; and given the colonial nature of Israel, it could hardly have been otherwise.
THREATS, CONFLICTS AND WARS: THE ROLE OF ISRAEL IN SECURING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED ACADEMIC RESEARCH, 2021
The state of Affairs in the Middle East has been unstable for about a century. The emergence of Israel as a Sovereign state stirred both ideological, historical, religious, and political differences. Thus, in a volatile Middle East, Israel has had to not only survive but thrive against all odds. The present Israel-Palestine conflict is merely a reflection of the long-standing crisis in the Middle East and a continuous attempt of the majority of the Arab world to ensure the destruction of the only Jewish state. Irrespective of Israel's desire and subsequent attempts at facilitating peace in the Middle East, there remain direct and indirect forces, both external and internal who deem the instability and crisis in the Middle East as favorable and profitable. It is on this backdrop that this paper critically explores the concept of threats, conflicts, and wars with an emphasis on the Israeli-Palestine Crisis as well as the inherent forces and culprits responsible for perpetuating the crises in the Middle East to define Israel's role in securing peace in the Middle East.
This paper may be divided into three parts. The first one offers a causal, holistic analysis of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The second one approaches this conflict as a case study so that, on the one hand, it may shed some light over the need for an unbiased and effective system of collective security 1 that would help resolve this kind of conflicts and, on the other hand, it may evince the arbitrary use of different principles when implementing measures – sanctions in particular – depending on the State or the interests at stake, with the concomitant problems it brings forward in terms of legitimacy and effectiveness of the system. Lastly, some possible lines of action for its resolution are explored. In spite of not abandoning the use of empirical and critical approaches, the study, due to its broad focus on the religious factor, adopts a mainly hermeneutic perspective. 2