| ID | 136592 |
| Title Proper | Politicide in Gaza |
| Other Title Information | how Israel's far right won the war |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Blumenthal, Max |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | At the end of the fifty-day Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, neither Israel nor Hamas had achieved their stated goals there: the armed resistance was still standing (despite the massive damage the territory and its people sustained) and the crippling Israeli siege was not lifted. Rather, this essay argues, it was Israel’s far right that emerged the victor. Not only did religious nationalists and secular extremists outflank the right-wing establishment, they justified the brutality of their actions in the military battle zone with messianic pronouncements, and fanned the flames of genocide in the public arena. The far right’s wartime success represented the culmination of a strategy Israeli sociologist Baruch Kimmerling has called “politicide,” a coinage denoting the partial or total destruction of a community of people with a view to denying them self-determination. |
| `In' analytical Note | Journal of Palestine Studies Vol.44, No.1; Aut.2014: p.14-28 |
| Journal Source | Journal of Palestine Studies 2014-12 44, 1 |
| Standard Number | Military Operation |