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Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military

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Description for Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military Hardback. The captivating story of a controversial group of Palestinians who volunteer to serve in the Israeli military. Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JFSR2; TTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.

An estimated 3,000 Palestinian citizens of Israel currently volunteer to serve in the Israeli military, a force fighting other Palestinians just miles away in occupied territories. Surrounded takes a close look at this controversial group of soldiers, examining the complex reasons these people join the army and the wider implications of their decisions in terms of security and citizenship.

Most observers perceive a clear and powerful divide in the political tensions and open hostilities between the State of Israel and the Palestinian people, but often fail to notice those who straddle this divide—Palestinian citizens of Israel. These soldiers comprise ... Read more

Surrounded contains over seventy interviews with soldiers, and provides a unique glimpse of their conflicting experiences of acceptance, integration, and marginalization within the Israeli military. Concluding with comparisons to similar situations around the world, the book upends nationalist understandings of how wars and those who fight in them work. A key to a more complex understanding of ethnic conflict, this gripping and revealing look at a select group of soldiers will immensely alter ideas about the reasons why people choose to fight, particularly on "the wrong side" of a war.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804758581
SKU
V9780804758581
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About Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh
Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh is currently a visiting scholar in the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. She is the author of the award-winning book Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel (2002) and co-editor of the anthology Blue ID: Palestinians in Israel Revisited (2008).

Reviews for Surrounded: Palestinian Soldiers in the Israeli Military
"The book provides an interesting analysis of the class considerations and economic circumstances of individuals choosing to join the Israeli army."—Nahla Abdo, Journal of Palestine Studies "This is a pioneering study of a fascinating aspect of Arab life in Israel."—CHOICE "No other book tackles the complexities Arab citizens of Israel face in joining the Israeli military. This thought-provoking book directly ... Read more

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