Israel’s decision to mobilize hundreds of thousands of reserve soldiers was not just an act of self-defense, a scholar writes, but a political move as well.
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Recent media coverage mostly confirms the role of faulty threat assessments, Hamas’ improved operational security, and confirmation bias.
While the war in Gaza has riveted public attention, the simultaneous escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the West Bank is not disconnected from the violence in Gaza.
Israel’s intelligence capacities are considered some of the best in the world – but unlike the US, it does not have a central organization coordinating all intelligence.
The West Bank governing body has seen its popularity erode amid accusations of corruption and incompetence.
Israel’s leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, has fired the country’s defense minister. That deepened the country’s crisis over proposed judicial reforms that even military reservists have protested.
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Scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies, American University
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Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of Practice of Public Policy, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Director of Security Studies and Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, UMass Lowell
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Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
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Associate Professor of the Practice in Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University
