Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military - Couverture rigide

Livre 2 sur 51: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures

Kanaaneh, Rhoda Ann

 
9780804758581: Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military
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ISBN 10 : 0804758581 ISBN 13 : 9780804758581
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2008

Synopsis

An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers, examining the complex reasons these people join the army and the wider implications of their decisions in terms of security and citizenship.

Most observers perceive a clear and powerful divide in the political tensions and open hostilities between the State of Israel and the Palestinian people, but often fail to notice those who straddle this divide--Palestinian citizens of Israel. These soldiers comprise no more than half a percent of this population, but their stories provide a powerful vantage point from which to consider a question faced by all Palestinians in Israel: to what extent are they, in fact, Israeli?

Surrounded contains over seventy interviews with soldiers, and provides a unique glimpse of their conflicting experiences of acceptance, integration, and marginalization within the Israeli military. Concluding with comparisons to similar situations around the world, the book upends nationalist understandings of how wars and those who fight in them work. A key to a more complex understanding of ethnic conflict, this gripping and revealing look at a select group of soldiers will immensely alter ideas about the reasons why people choose to fight, particularly on "the wrong side" of a war.

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À propos de l'auteur

Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. She is the author of the award-winning book Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (2002) and co-editor of the anthology Blue ID: Palestinians in Israel Revisited (2008).

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804758581
ISBN 13 
9780804758581
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  080475859X ISBN 13 :  9780804758598
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010
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