LEADER 03594nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910822526203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-5335-3 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814753354 035 $a(CKB)2670000000269951 035 $a(EBL)865664 035 $a(OCoLC)818853905 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000832301 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11442990 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000832301 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10899053 035 $a(PQKB)10515898 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001323826 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865664 035 $a(OCoLC)815288273 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19228 035 $a(DE-B1597)547803 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814753354 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000269951 100 $a20120531d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIsrael's death hierarchy $ecasualty aversion in a militarized democracy /$fYagil Levy 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 225 0 $aWarfare and Culture ;$v4 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-5334-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tList of Figures and Tables --$tAcknowledgments --$tPreface from the Series Editor --$tIntroduction --$t1 The Right to Protect and the Right to Protection --$t2 Unbalancing and Balancing the Rights --$t3 Bereavement-Motivated Collective Actors --$t4 Bereavement-Motivated Collective Actors: A Comparison --$t5 The Death Hierarchy --$t6 Casualty Sensitivity Breeds High Lethality --$t7 Casualty Sensitivity and Political-Military Relations --$t8 Conclusions --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $a2012 Winner of the Shapiro Award for the Best Book in Israel Studies, presented by the Association for Israel StudiesWhose life is worth more?That is the question that states inevitably face during wartime. Which troops are thrown to the first lines of battle and which ones remain relatively intact? How can various categories of civilian populations be protected? And when front and rear are porous, whose life should receive priority, those of soldiers or those of civilians? In Israel?s Death Hierarchy, Yagil Levy uses Israel as a compelling case study to explore the global dynamics and security implications of casualty sensitivity. Israel, Levy argues, originally chose to risk soldiers mobilized from privileged classes, more than civilians and other soldiers. However, with the mounting of casualty sensitivity, the state gradually restructured what Levy calls its ?death hierarchy? to favor privileged soldiers over soldiers drawn from lower classes and civilians, and later to place enemy civilians at the bottom of the hierarchy by the use of heavy firepower. The state thus shifted risk from soldiers to civilians. As the Gaza offensive of 2009 demonstrates, this new death hierarchy has opened Israel to global criticism. 606 $aCasualty aversion (Military science)$zIsrael 606 $aCivil-military relations$zIsrael 607 $aIsrael$xMilitary policy 615 0$aCasualty aversion (Military science) 615 0$aCivil-military relations 676 $a355/.03355694 700 $aLevy$b Yagil$f1958-$01753833 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822526203321 996 $aIsrael's death hierarchy$94189927 997 $aUNINA