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.
A brilliant book by one of the worlds most inspiring political activists. It lays out the way in which Israels war on the Palestinians has become both a model and the laboratory for a global war against the people.
Halpers 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 Israels 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.
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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 Pentagons Defense Advanced Projects Agency, turning science fiction into reality |
DASH | Elbits 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 radiusbased 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 lkhima 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 |
MIRV | Multiple Independently-targetable Reentry Vehicle, ballistic warheads that can be dispensed and aimed against multiple targets |
MISSILE Complex | A combined system of Military, Internal Security, Surveillance, Intelligence and Law Enforcement, the key elements of pacification |
MPRS | Multi-Purpose Rifle System, which uses the same technology as fire control systems of advanced tanks, making any assault rifle a much diversified weapon system |
NBC | Nuclear, Biological, Chemical forms of weapons |
NBIC | Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information technology and Cognitive science, emerging fields of nano research, including weaponry |
OIC | Organisation of Islamic Cooperation |
OPSAT | A next-generation optical observation satellite for reconnaissance purposes, developed by IAIs MBT Space Division |
OPT | Occupied Palestinian Territories |
PGS | Prompt Global Strike Mission, an effort to develop a system that can deliver a precision conventional weapon strike anywhere in the world within one hour |