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Israel-Lebanon conflict in war cinema: an organisational and comparative analysis / Ben Shalom, Uzi; Stern, Nehemia N

Ben Shalom, Uzi	Journal Article
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This article focuses on the organisational aspects of combat as represented in Israeli films about the Lebanon Wars. It analyzes four prominent films that relate to Israel’s engagement in Lebanon from the 1982 war to its operations in the southern security strip. The analysis is augmented by comparison to prominent Israeli war films on the 1973 Yom-Kippur War. These films reflect a common and coherent Military Habitus that originates in the organisational principals that define ‘Israeli National Way of War.’ This analysis offers an alternative viewpoint to interpretations that view war cinema as manifestations of broader national narratives.

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Israel ; Lebanon ; Yom Kippur War ; IDF ; War Films ; Post-Heroic ;
Lebanon Wars

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Ouroboros health strategy: how Israelis adopted health as a post-heroic strategy in their conflict with the Palestinians / Chen, Kertcher

Chen, Kertcher	Journal Article
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This article claims that since the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accord the Israelis have adopted a post-heroic health strategy towards the Palestinians that can be termed an ‘Ouroboros’ strategy. This strategy encourages all relevant actors to be engaged and invest in its execution without obtaining a substantial constant improvement in the political, security and health sectors that justify its implementation. This strategy was not planned by the Israeli government but was rather employed in the field of health by various NGOs and health professionals who used it to advance a few major goals: humanitarian aid, peacebuilding on the institutional and personal levels, and peace advocacy. This led to the evolving of an Ouroboros health strategy that applies constant pressure on the Israeli health sector to assume more responsibility for Palestinian health without any corresponding gain for Israel.

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Israel ; Health ; Humanitarian Aid ; Palestinians ; Strategy ; Ouroborus Strategy ;
Medical Peacebuilding ; Peace Advocacy ; Post-Heroic

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Tunnel Operations in the Israel Defense Forces: Adapting the Warrior Ethos to Post-Heroic Conflict / Stern, Nehemia

Stern, Nehemia	Journal Article
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This study presents an empirically grounded account of tunnel combat operations in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) within the context of “post-heroic” warfare. Current scholarship on “post-heroism” has viewed the technological and professional standards of contemporary military conflicts as distancing the individual combatant from the modern battlefield. Little attention has been given however to the ways in which soldiers themselves experience and adapt to post-heroic conditions. Findings based on in-depth semistructured interviews with 17 IDF tunnel combatants show these soldiers actively reinterpreting the strategic importance placed on distancing the warrior from the battlefield. This exploratory article suggests that an individual “warrior ethos” still resonates amid the professional and technological contours of post-heroic (underground) conflicts. By presenting a novel account of contemporary tunnel warfare from the perspective of the combatants themselves, this research sheds new light on the different personal dimensions that impact post-heroic military operations.

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IDF ; Unit Cohesion ; Warrior Ethos ; Post-Heroic ; Tunnel Warfare

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