Israel’s Death Hierarchy: Casualty Aversion in a Militarized Democracy

Contents

>> vii Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xi Preface from the Series Editor xiii Wayne E. Lee Introduction 1 1 The Right to Protect and the Right to Protection 15 1.1 The Essence of Rights 15 1.2 Balancing Strategies 26 1.3 Conclusions 34 2 Unbalancing and Balancing the Rights 37 2.1 Balanced Rights 38 2.2 Unbalanced Rights 42 2.3 Demands for Burden Reduction 46 2.4 The Subversive Bereavement Discourse 51 2.5 Balancing Strategies 59 2.6 Conclusions 68 3 Bereavement-Motivated Collective Actors 71 3.1 The South Lebanon Guerrilla War (1985–2000): The Impact of Four Mothers 72 3.2 Explaining Four Mothers’ Success 76 3.3 The Al-Aqsa Intifada (2000-2005) 82 3.4 The Second Lebanon War (2006) and Operation Cast Lead (2009) 96 3.5 Conclusions 106 viii << Contents 4 Bereavement-Motivated Collective Actors: A Comparison 109 4.1 Gold Star Families for Peace 109 4.2 Alternative Explanations 115 4.3 Theoretical Conclusions 121 5 The Death Hierarchy 127 5.1 The Principles of the Death Hierarchy 128 5.2 The Structure of the Death Hierarchy 129 5.3 Conclusions 145 6 Casualty Sensitivity Breeds High Lethality 147 6.1 The Essence of the Force-Casualty Tradeoff 149 6.2 Israel’s Wars against Gaza: A General Outline 153 6.3 The Tradeoff 154 6.4 Conclusions and Theoretical Implications 171 7 Casualty Sensitivity and Political-Military Relations 181 7.1 Civilian Control of the IDF: General Background 182 7.2 Casualty Sensitivity Reinforces the Military 185 7.3 Conclusions and Theoretical Implications 200 8 Conclusions 205 Notes 215 Bibliography 219 Index 243 About the Author 256 ...