Rubber Bullets:
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has remained one of the most difficult international issues in modern times. Although of extremely small relative size, geographically, Israel and the occupied territories of Palestine are closely related to, as well as ultimately responsible for, much of the simmering hatred present in the current "war on terrorism." Within the area, however, specifically within the collective consciousness of both Palestinians as well as Israeli's, the methods of engagement used by the IDF, or Israeli Defense Forces against the Palestinian population is often a reflection, or a symbolic representation of the overall Israeli political/ideological climate. Rubber Bullets: Power and Conscience in Modern Israel (1997) by Israeli political scientist Yaron Ezrahi, discusses this reality, and reaches some interesting conclusions.
Rubber Bullets was written in a very different time from today. Indeed, although the events in Israel and Palestine during that time were far from peaceful, there remained an unprecedented sense of hope that, perhaps, through true negotiations, a settlement could be reached. Regardless, it critiques the nature of Israeli culture and its sense of heavy-handed nationalism in a way that seems to herald the Sharon Policies of today.
In specific, Rubber Bullets explores the unique aspects of Israeli society, militarism, cultural quirks (masculinity, private space, literature), and sense of collective history. He uses the historical background...
In specific, this collective consciousness in which Israelis grasp on to ideological and religious histories, in effect, basing their allegiance (and their free thinking), on these histories, prevents them from the political change necessary to change their situation.
Interestingly, Ezrahi does not shy away from linking much of the popularly embraced qualities of Israeli society -- in effect, those qualities that give most Israeli's their sense of pride in identity -- collectivism, unity, religiously motivated policy (whether or not the individual is religious), as well as an examination on the pride of Zionism (a cultural history that must be tempered, he asserts, with an acceptance of its dominating and colonialist realities).
The title of the work refers to the decision of the IDF to begin a more widespread use of rubber bullets against Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. Here, Ezrahi places significance on a shift of…
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