Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices: War and National Security

Index

180 Index A Abraham, 60, 104 Abu Ghraib, 36–37, 92, 124–25 Afghanistan, War in, 24–25, 35, 49, 98, 123, 141, 145, 147 airport security, 3, 27, 30–32, 37 Al-Barakaat (Islamic charity org.), 28 Algeria, 123 Allende, Salvador, 22 al-Qaeda, 15, 24, 98 alternative energy sources, 157 Amalek, 53–55, 60 Amir, Yigal, 124 Anti-Defamation League, 31 anti-Israel rhetoric, 34 anti-Semitism, 34 appeasement policies, 34 Arabs, 13, 19, 23–25, 44, 66–68, 82 arms race, 137–38, 145 arms trading, 130, 134, 147–48, 150–57 assassination of terrorists, 16, 18, 40, 68, 89 assembly, right to, 3, 35 asymmetric threats, 150–51 B Ba Webe Checkpoint, 42–44 Begin, Menachem, 63 Ben-Gurion, David, 50, 70–71, 93–94 see also “purity of arms” (tohar ha-neshek) doctrine bin Laden, Osama, 24–25, 38, 98, 124 Blackwater, 159 blockades, 49, 74 border security, 32, 38, 43–45 Bosnian War, 49 Breaking the Silence (Israel veterans org.), 41–42 Buber, Martin, 104 Bush, George H.W. administration, 155 Bush, George W. administration, 16, 24–25, 45, 119, 155–56 Bybee memo, 125n28 C Camp David peace accords, 114 Canaanites, 53–55, 60, 131 captives, 84 Carter, Jimmy, 34 ceasefires, 26, 67 certainty standard (for evaluating threats), 121, 124 checkpoints, 18, 40–45, 68–69 chemical weapons, 82 Cheney, Dick, 161 Chile, 22 China, 150, 152–53 Church Committee reforms, 38 CIA, 158 citizens, responsibilities of, 99, 112–13, 142–44, 149 civilians, 25, 70–71, 73, 76, 86–87, 98–100, 102, 103–4, 108, 110–15 civil liberties contemporary sources on, 10–14 and national security, 3–4, 16–20, 35, 40–46 Clinton administration, 155 cluster bombs, 153–54 coercive interrogation techniques. see torture Cold War, 75, 140, 146, 159–160 collateral damage, 82, 94, 100 colonialism, 49, 61, 111 conduct of war battlefield ethics, 71–72, 81, 94, 99–100, 108–9, 113–15, 120n14 biblical and rabbinic views on, 83–85 contemporary sources on, 85–90 Jewish principles of, 102–3 in determining just wars, 74, 76–77 and national values, 67, 91–100, 112, 126, 165 non-battlefield conduct, 82, 89 and nuclear/chemical weapons, 74, 82, 89–90 rape and torture, 81, 96, 106–8, 115, 120n14, 121–24 see also individual conduct in war Council of Peace and Security, 44 Cuba, 22, 27–28 Index 181 D Defense Intelligence Agency, 158 defensive wars, 54, 56–57, 70, 73 Department of Homeland Security, 15 Dershowitz, Alan, 37 dignity. see human dignity discipline, 85, 92, 93, 95–99 discretionary wars (milh .emet reshut), 54–55, 60–62, 132 discrimination, 93, 95, 99 domestic policy and national security, 27, 31–32, 45, 129, 133, 145–49 draft, 129, 131–37, 140–43 due process, 12, 36, 92, 99–100, 118, 126 Durbin, Richard, 36 E economic blockades and boycotts, 49, 74 Egypt, 23, 61–62, 64, 69, 72, 114 Eisenhower, Dwight D., 23, 129, 140–42, 144, 145–49 see also military-industrial complex email, monitoring of, 3 enemy combatants, 16, 37, 119 ethics of arms trading, 151–54, 156–57 battlefield ethics, 71–72, 81, 94, 99–100, 108–9, 113–15, 120n14 in foreign and domestic policies, 133, 146–48 of individual conduct in war, 81, 83–88, 95–99, 105–8, 112–15 and nuclear proliferation, 154–57 see also “purity of arms” (tohar ha-neshek) doctrine F FBI, 122, 158 financial activities, monitoring of, 3, 27–28, 37 foreign policy and arms trading, 152–54 fourth generation warfare. see terrorism, responses to France, 18, 19, 23 free speech, right to, 3, 7–8, 12, 16, 35 Friedman, Thomas, 125 G garrison state, 159–60, 165 Gaza, 18, 25–26, 34, 49, 70, 73, 151 Geneva Conventions, 81, 125n28 genocide, 4, 50, 59–60, 75–76 God kevod ha-beriyot (dignity of created beings), 117–19 kinyan ha-kadosh baruch hu (belonging to God), 119 man created in His image, 11, 81, 116–17, 167 “Good Samaritan” principle, 120 Great Britain, 18, 19, 21, 23, 36, 65 Grenada, invasion of, 49 Guantanamo Bay detention camp, 37, 45, 116, 122, 125 see also prisoners, rights and dignity of H Halliburton, 159, 161 Hamas, 26–27, 34, 69, 73, 138, 151 haredi (Orthodox Jews) exemption, 137 Hawara Checkpoint, 41–42 health care reform, 145, 162 Hezbollah, 34, 57, 69, 110, 138, 151 homeland security, 15–20 hostages, 49, 74, 82 human body, debasing of, 117–18...