Peaceworks

The Israeli Military and Israel's Palestinian Policy
From Oslo to the Al Aqsa Intifada

Yoram Peri

Peri examines the growing influence of the Israeli military in policymaking, as prolonged low-intensity warfare has led to the emergence of a "political-military partnership." At the constitutional level, formal decisions are still made by elected political leaders, but there is another, concealed level in which the professional officer class is deeply involved in policymaking. This influence can be seen in the changing Israeli approach toward the Palestinians, with the Israeli Defense Force pressing for a peace initiative in the early 1990s but then urging a hard-line approach in the late 1990s.

Yoram Peri is professor of political sociology and communication at Tel Aviv University and head of the Chaim Herzog Institute for Media, Politics, and Society.

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