Savage Restraint: Israel, Palestine and the Dialectics of Legal Repression

Citation:

Ron, James. 2000. “Savage Restraint: Israel, Palestine and the Dialectics of Legal Repression.” Social Problems 47 (4): 445–72.

Author: James Ron

Abstract:

In 1988, Israeli security forces engaged in a wide variety of repressive tactics aimed at putting down the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Rather than viewing these methods solely as products of instructions handed down from on high, this article regards Israeli tactics as emerging from processes of innovation and elaboration by military personnel. Rules stipulating the legal use of lethal force placed important limits on Israeli military behavior. Within those limits, however soldiers were free to invent new methods of repression. The article draws on 50 open-ended interviews with Israeli military veterans.

Topics: Military Forces & Armed Groups, Rights, Human Rights Regions: MENA, Asia, Middle East Countries: Israel, Palestine / Occupied Palestinian Territories

Year: 2000

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