War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification

353 Pages·2015·4.25 MB·English

by  Jeff Halper

War Against the People
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“Fascinating . . . Halper places the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories
at the heart of what he calls the pacification industry. A brave, analytical and
innovative book.”
—Andrew Feinstein author The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
“A brilliant book by 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, author of Hollow Land: Israel’s Architecture of Occupation
“Halper’s disturbing vision is a rare combination of theoretical imagination 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
“An excellent, revealing and accessible examination of Israel’s ‘security politics’
and the changing nature of pacification worldwide.”
—Mouin Rabbani, Senior Fellow with the Institute
for Palestine Studies and Co-editor of Jadaliyya
“This book has opened my eyes. A fascinating read.”
—Shir Hever, author of The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation
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War Against
the People
Israel, the Palestinians
and Global Pacification
Jeff Halper
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First published 2015 by Pluto Press
345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
www.plutobooks.com
Copyright © Jeff Halper 2015
The right of Jeff Halper to be identified as the author of this work
has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 7453 3431 8 Hardback
ISBN 978 0 7453 3430 1 Paperback
ISBN 978 1 8496 4972 8 PDF eBook
ISBN 978 1 8496 4974 2 Kindle eBook
ISBN 978 1 8496 4973 5 EPUB eBook
This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully
managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing
processes are expected to conform to the environmental standards of the
country of origin.
Typeset by Stanford DTP Services, Northampton, England
Text design by Melanie Patrick
Simultaneously printed by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham, UK
and Edwards Bros in the United States of America
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
Acronyms viii
Introduction: How Does Israel Get Away With It? 1
Part I The Global Pacification Industry
1 Enforcing Hegemony: Securocratic Wars in Global Battlespace 11
Part II A Pivotal Israel
2 Why Israel? The Thrust Into Global Involvement 35
3 Niche Filling in a Global Matrix of Control 67
Part III Weaponry of Hybrid Warfare and Securocratic Control
(Niche 1)
4 The Israeli Arms and Security Industry 89
5 Dominant Maneuver 97
6 Precision Engagement 113
Part IV The Securocratic Dimension—A Model of “Sufficient
Pacification” (Niche 2)
7 Israel’s Matrix of Control 143
8 Operational Doctrines and Tactics 168
Part V Managing Hegemony Throughout the World-System
9 Serving the Hegemons on the Peripheries: The “Near”
Periphery 193
10 Security Politics on the “Far” Periphery 213
11 The Private Sector 227
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vi War Against the People
Part VI Domestic Securitization and Policing
12 Serving the Core’s Ruling Classes “At Home” 249
Conclusions: Challenging Hegemony and Resisting Pacification 275
Notes 281
Online Resources 325
Index 326
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List of Figures and Tables
Figures
1.1 The global pacification system 17
1.2 Phase 4 “Stabilizing operations” and securitization 28
2.1 Israel’s security politics 36
3.1 A pivotal Israel 69
3.2 The global Matrix of Control 73
9.1 Circles of Israeli security politics 197
C.1 The global “scapes” 277
Tables
2.1 The evolution of Israel’s security politics 45
4.1 Core Israeli military export technologies 91
4.2 The Israeli arms and security industry at a glance 92
4.3 The structure and finances of the five largest Israeli arms
companies 93
7.1 Israel’s Matrix of Control over the Occupied Palestinian
Territory 149
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Acronyms
AAM Air-to-Air Missile
ABM Anti-Ballistic Missile
AEW Airborne Early Warning system
AIFV Armored Infantry Fighting Vehicle
AIPAC the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee
APC Armored Personnel Carrier
APAM Anti-Personnel/Anti-Material munition
ATT Arms Trade Treaty to promote transparency and
accountability in the arms trade, signed but not
ratified by Israel
BANG Bits, Atoms, Neurons and Genes, a branch of
nanotechnology, including nanoweapons
BMS A Battle Management System that links soldiers,
their field commanders and Command Post staff
BRICS-MINT Counterhegemonic bloc: Brazil, Russia, India,
China, South Africa, joined by Mexico, Indonesia,
Nigeria and Turkey
C4ISTAR Capabilities built into high-tech weapons:
command, control, communications, computers
plus Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition
and Reconnaissance
CAR Central Asian Republic
CEV Combat Engineering Vehicle
COIN Counterinsurgency operations
COMINT Communication Intelligence
CQC Close Quarter Combat, especially in urban warfare
DARPA The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Projects Agency,
“turning science fiction into reality”
DASH Elbit’s Display and Sight Helmet, part of its HMD
(Helmet-Mounted Display) and HUD (Head-Up
Cockpit Display) system
DIME Dense Inert Metal Explosive, a bomblet that has a
relatively small but highly destructive blast radius
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Acronyms ix
based on exploding such chemically inert materials
as tungsten above the heads of targets, and
incinerates them
ELINT/ESM Electronic Intelligence and Electronic Support
Measures
EMP Electromagnetic Pulse bomb strike capability
creating a short, focused and highly destructive
burst of electromagnetic energy
EO Electro-optically guided weapons
EW Electronic Warfare
FMF Foreign Military Financing (US)
GMTI A Ground Moving Target Indicator
HELWS High-Energy Laser Weapon System
IAF Israeli Air Force
IAI Israel Aerospace Industries
ICBM Intercontinental Ballistic Missile
IDF Israel Defense Force
IHL International Humanitarian Law
IMI Israel Military Industries
IMINT Image Intelligence
INSAT Nano-satellites launched for testing new industrial
components under real outer-space conditions
ISR Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
JDAM Joint Direct Attack Munitions
LASHAB The Hebrew acronym for l’khima al shetakh banui or
“warfare on built-up terrain”
LEEP Law Enforcement Exchange Program, in which the
private Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
brings American law enforcement officials to Israel
and vice versa
LEO Low Earth Orbiting satellite
MALE UAV Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance drone
MARS Multi-purpose Aiming Reflex Sight
MARV Miniature Autonomous Robotic Vehicle
MAVs Micro-Air Vehicles, also called entomopters;
bug-sized devices that fly
MID Militarized Interstate Disputes
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