Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War

The surprise of the Yom Kippur War (1973) rivals that of the other two major strategic surprises in the twentieth century-Operation Barbarossa, the German surprise attack on the Soviet Union and the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The major difference between these events is that Israeli intelligence had a lot more and better quality information leading up to the attack than did the Soviet Union or the United States prior to those attacks. Why, then, was the beginning of the Yom Kippur War such a surprise?
While many scholars have tried to explain why Israel was caught unawares despite its sophisticated military intelligence services, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri looks beyond the military, intelligence, and political explanations to a cultural explanation. Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War reveals that the culture that evolved in Israel between the Six Day War and the Yom Kippur War played a large role in the surprise. Gavriely-Nuri's analysis provides new and innovative insights into the relationship between culture and socio-political phenomena and security.

Autorentext
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri is a research fellow at the Truman Institute of the Advancement of Peace, Jerusalem.

Inhalt
Preface
Introduction
Part One: The Historical and Theoretical Context Chapter One: Complacency and Euphoria?
Chapter Two: The Theoretical Framework Normalization of War
Chapter Three: The Post-1967 Normalization Mechanisms
Chapter Four: Government Control of Cultural Production
Part Two: Normalization Mechanisms in Israeli Culture, 1967-1973 Chapter Five: The War Euphemization Discourse
Chapter Six: The Naturalization of War Discourse
Chapter Seven: The Just War Discourse
Conclusion: Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War
Bibliography
Corpus
Endnotes