Building on “The Idolatry of Force: How Israel Embraced Targeted Killing,” published in the Autumn 2017 issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies, this companion piece examines the practices through which Israel9s garrison state normalizes aggressive militarism and indifference to the pain of others. Political discourse and semantics, media, pedagogical instruction, religious training, and the shared experience of army service all feed into a warrior code and culture where combat and preparations for combat become second nature, and where violence, no matter how extreme and disproportionate, assumes collective legitimacy. A broad rhetorical repertoire is deployed to craft a narrative of virtue, sacrifice, and necessity. Key to this narrative are the threat to national survival posed by demonic enemies and the spiritual valor embodied and replenished in the struggle to vanquish them.

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武力的偶像崇拜（第二部分）：以色列驻军国的军国主义

在《巴勒斯坦研究杂志》2017 年秋季刊上发表的“对武力的崇拜：以色列如何接受有针对性的杀戮”的基础上，这篇配套文章探讨了以色列驻军国使侵略性军国主义和对他人痛苦的冷漠正常化的做法。政治话语和语义学、媒体、教学指导、宗教训练和军队服役的共享经验都融入了战士的准则和文化，在这种文化中，战斗和战斗准备成为第二天性，而暴力，无论多么极端和不成比例，都假定为集体合法性。广泛的修辞手法被用来制作美德、牺牲和必要性的叙述。