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The Unique Features of the Second Intifada

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dc.creator Zaki Shalom
dc.date 2011-05-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T20:09:32Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T20:09:32Z
dc.identifier 2307-793X
dc.identifier 2307-8634
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/37758b42372442bc8c31ac6d3e4c958e
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/9072
dc.identifier.uri https://doaj.org/article/37758b42372442bc8c31ac6d3e4c958e
dc.description Over a decade has passed since the eruption of the second intifada, a grueling period for Israel with the long, sustained, and intensive series of terrorist attacks launched by terrorist organizations against civilians and soldiers of the State of Israel. Most difficult were the suicide attacks, generally carried out in urban centers and causing large numbers of casualties – dead and wounded – among the civilian population. Predictably, therefore, the terrorism phenomenon became a dominant issue on Israel’s national and popular agenda. It reshaped the walk of Israeli civilian life, affected politics, and to a significant extent damaged the country’s economy. In addition, for many years the intifada was accompanied by the Israeli public’s sense that the defense establishment had no response that would put an end to terrorism, or at least drastically reduce it. Those times have not receded from the nation’s collective memory and still affect how Israeli society formulates its positions on current political and security issues. Against the background of explosions and the stream of suicide bombings, the dominant argument within Israel touched on whether the IDF was capable of defeating suicide terrorism, and more generally, whether a regular army was at all capable of defeating a guerilla or terrorist organization. This question is an underlying element in the essay that follows, which argues that the intifada was one of the most severe military campaigns Israel fought since attaining its independence.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Institute for National Security Studies
dc.relation http://d26e8pvoto2x3r.cloudfront.net/uploadimages/import/(file)1308129480.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2307-793X
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2307-8634
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source Military and Strategic Affairs, Vol 3, Iss 1, Pp 17-27 (2011)
dc.subject second intifada
dc.subject Israel
dc.subject terrorist organizations
dc.subject terrorism
dc.subject Yasir Arafat
dc.subject IDF
dc.subject Palestinian Authority
dc.subject Palestinians
dc.subject military
dc.subject Military Science
dc.subject U
dc.subject DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject Military Science
dc.subject U
dc.subject DOAJ:Military Science
dc.subject DOAJ:Technology and Engineering
dc.subject Military Science
dc.subject U
dc.subject Military Science
dc.subject U
dc.subject Military Science
dc.subject U
dc.title The Unique Features of the Second Intifada
dc.type Article


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