Mada al-Carmel has published a position paper titled “Sde Teiman and Beit Lid Events: A Reading into the Militiazation of the Israeli State”.
The paper addresses the storming of the Beit Lid barracks and the Sde Teiman military camp in the Negev—a brutal detention center for residents of Gaza—by right-wing groups. It also discusses the support these groups received from cabinet ministers and members of the Israeli Knesset, which raised questions about the transformations taking place in Israeli society and state institutions today.
This paper argues that these raids are one of many indicators of the disintegration of the concept of “statism” (“mamlakhtiyot” in Hebrew) in the thought and behavior of leaders and broad segments of Israeli society. They also point to the emergence of a militia mentality among these sectors, a mentality that has also penetrated the ranks of soldiers and units of the Israeli army.
This paper attempts to analyze the causes and indicators of the disintegration of statism in Israel and the rise of militiazation in Israeli society and among political and military elites. There is a clear link between the two phenomena, as each one feeds the other, which makes it less likely for either of them to weaken. Needless to say, these did not arise from the war on Gaza but were more clearly exposed because of it.
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