Defending the Holy Land: A Critical Analysis of Israel's Security and Foreign Policy

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Glossary ACRS Arms Control and Regional Security. One of the regional working groups established as a result of the Madrid Conference in 1991. AGAT The planning branch of the IDF (Hebrew acronym) AMAN Israeli military intelligence. The principal intelligence agency in Israel (Hebrew acronym). APC armored personnel carrier ASU Arab Socialist Union. The ruling party in Egypt since the 1952 coup. BTWC Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. The 1975 convention on the prohibition of the development, production, and stockpiling of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction . CSBM con‹dence and security building measures C4I command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence. The synergic “brain” of any modern military force. CFSA Committee on Foreign and Security Affairs (in the Knesset) COS chief of staff of the IDF CWC Chemical Weapons Convention. The 1997 treaty prohibiting the production , stockpiling, and usage of chemical weapons. DER Defence Emergency Regulations. Emergency measures established in 1945 by the British mandate to deal with Jewish and Arab terrorists that allow imprisonment without trial, expulsions, and house demolitions . These regulations were adapted by the state of Israel and are still in force. DMZ demilitarized zone (in the Israeli-Syrian border pre-1967) DPRP Department of Policy Research and Planning. The research and intelligence division of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ElInt electronic intelligence. Includes signal intelligence, communications intelligence, and visual intelligence. EU European Union 665 FAS Federation of American Scientists GDP gross domestic product GSS General Secret Service (see SHABAK) HCJ High Court of Justice. The Supreme Court forums that rule on petitions of private individuals and groups against the state’s authorities. HDI human development index. An index that measures national standards of living, based on a number of economic, demographic, and social indicators. HFC Home Front Command. A military branch devoted to dealing with missile threats on population centers in Israel. HumInt human intelligence. Based on information provided by humans (spies, informants, etc.) IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IAF Israeli Air Force IDF Israeli Defense Forces INF Israeli Naval Force JCSS Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies. A strategic think tank located at Tel Aviv University in Israel. LAMDAN the Israeli Air Force Intelligence Branch LIC low-intensity con›ict MAC Mixed Armistice Commission. An international body that included Israeli and Syrian representative that acted in the early 1950s to consider complaints by the parties regarding the violation of the armistice agreement. MAFAT Department of Weapons and Technological Development. Part of Israel’s Defense Ministry (Hebrew acronym). MEMRI Middle East Media Research Institute. An Israeli research institute specializing in translation of media reports and articles from the Arab media. MENA Middle East and North Africa. The collection of states that designates the modern Middle East. MFO Multilateral Force and Observers in the Sinai. A multilateral force overseeing the implementation of the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement in the Sinai. MID militarized interstate dispute. A set of militarized incidents between or among states involving the threat, display, or use of force in short intervals. These incidents are government sanctioned and government directed (Gochman and Maoz 1984, 586). MK member of the Knesset MOA Memorandum of Agreement. A document of strategic cooperation between Israel and the United States First signed on November 30, 1981, and renewed several times since then. NGC National Guidance Council. A council of Palestinian leaders in the occupied territories that operated in the late 1970s and early 1980s. NGO nongovernmental organizations NIE national intelligence estimate. An annual intelligence report listing the strategic challenges opportunities confronting Israel’s security. 666 GLOSSARY NPT Non-Proliferation Treaty. A treaty disallowing the development of nuclear weapons by anybody except the ‹ve major powers and regulating the monitoring of peaceful use of atomic and nuclear energy, signed in 1969 and renewed (for an inde‹nite amount of time) in 1995. NRP National Religious Party (in the Knesset) NSC National Security Council NST national security team NWFZ nuclear weapons free zone. An agreement wherein all states in a region agree to forgo development, production, or possession of nuclear weapons. OECD Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. An organization of thirty economically advanced democratic states committed to economic openness, development, and democracy. PA Palestinian Authority. The governing Palestinian body after the Oslo Accord of 1993. PCI parliamentary commission of inquiry. Established by the Knesset to investigate policy problems in various areas of government. PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine PGM precision-guided munition PLO Palestinian...