List of Figures and Tables
Acronyms
Introduction: How Does Israel Get Away With It?
Part I: The Global Pacification Industry
1. Enforcing Hegemony: Securocratic Wars in Global Battlespace
Part II: A Pivotal Israel
2. Why Israel? The Thrust into Global Involvement
3. Niche-Filling in a Global Matrix of Control
Part III: Weaponry of Hybrid Warfare and Securocratic Control
(Niche 1)
4. The Israeli Arms and Security Industry
5. Dominant Maneuver
6. Precision Engagement
Part IV: The Securocratic Dimension: A Model of 'Sufficient
Pacification' (Niche 2)
7. Israel's Matrix of Control
8. Operational Doctrines and Tactics
Part V: Managing Hegemony throughout the World-System
9. Serving the Hegemons on the Peripheries: The 'Near'
Periphery
10. Security Politics on the 'Far' Periphery
11. The Private Sector
Part VI: Domestic Securitization and Policing
12. Serving the Core’s Ruling Classes 'At Home'
Conclusions: Challenging Hegemony and Resisting Pacification
Notes
Online Resources
Index
Jeff Halper is the head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a founding member of the One Democratic State Campaign. He is the author of War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification (Pluto, 2015), An Israeli in Palestine (Pluto, 2010), Obstacles to Peace (ICAHD, 2003 and subsequent editions) and Redemption and Revival: The Jewish Yishuv in Jerusalem in the Nineteenth Century (Westview, 1991).
'This is an important book for anyone who cares about peace, the
plight of the Palestinian people and the role of Israel in the
world of war. Halper's fascinating book places the Israeli
occupation of the Palestinian territories at the heart of its role
in the transnational military industrial complex and what he calls
the pacification industry. A brave, analytical and innovative book
from an admirable activist and thinker'
*Andrew Feinstein author The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms
Trade*
'War Against the People is not only a key to deciphering Israeli
policies in Palestine, but also one of the clearest explanations
that I have ever read on how important Israel/Palestine is in the
world. It addresses with clarity and structure one of the most
complex and yet extremely important topics of the securitisation of
our society. His book has opened my eyes, and was a fascinating
read'
*Shir Hever, author of The Political Economy of Israel's
Occupation*
'Halper's essay on Israel's 'matrix of control' is classic, even
canonical. Now, in War Against the People, he radicalises the
argument to develop a deeply disturbing vision of what he calls
'securocratic wars in global battlespace'... a rare combination of
theoretical imagination, empirical sensitivity and political
passion'
*Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor, Peter Wall
Institute for Advanced Studies and Department of Geography,
University of British Columbia, and author of The Colonial
Present*
'In this cogently written and extremely informative book, Jeff
Halper explores Israel's key role in the 'global pacification
industry'. The resulting alliances not only enable Israel to
perpetuate the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the
latter's function as a human laboratory for Israel's 'matrix of
control' additionally make the occupation indispensable to Israel's
security industry and global positioning. War Against the People is
an excellent, revealing and accessible examination of Israel's
'security politics' and the changing nature of pacification
worldwide in the twenty-first century'
*Mouin Rabbani, Senior Fellow with the Institute for Palestine
Studies and co-editor of Jadaliyya*
'A brilliant book whose depth of political insight is driven by the
spirit of one of the world's most inspiring political activists. It
lays out the way in which Israel's war on the Palestinians has
become both a model and the laboratory for a global war against the
people'
*Eyal Weizman, Professor of Visual and Spatial Cultures and
Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths,
University of London*
'This profoundly important and well-researched study serves as a
reminder that US-backed Israeli militarism and its devastating
humanitarian impact is neither unique nor can it be seen in
isolation. Halper convincingly argues that it is part of an even
more disturbing global phenomenon that goes well beyond Israel and
which threatens the lives and civil liberties not just of
Palestinians, but of people around the world'
*Stephen Zunes, Professor of Politics and Coordinator of Middle
Eastern Studies, University of San Francisco*
'A genuinely frightening book, providing an exhaustive survey of
Israel's weapons technology'
*Tom Sperlinger, Electronic Intifada*
'A must-read, a major contribution to the subject'
*Moshe Machover, The Weekly Worker*
'Necessary, dystopic'
*Mondoweiss*
'An exceptional, useful book'
*Max Ajl, Warscapes*
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