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Ladder and the Gate

Arab Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and the Creation of Militarized Citizenship, 1948–1973

Av Rami Zeedan

Del i serien Studies in Civil-Military Relations

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Since the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Palestinian Arabs have served in its military. This little-known reality, brimming with contradiction, reflects the enduring complexities of the regional conflict and the politics of conditional citizenship in a militarized state.The Ladder and the Gate is the first comprehensive, unified history of Arab communities in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during the first three decades of statehood, weaving together the experiences of Sunni Muslims, Christian Arabs, and Druze into a single narrative. Rami Zeedan demonstrates how military service functioned as a mechanism of both inclusion and exclusion, operating along lines of ethnicity, political expediency, and state-building imperatives. In so doing, he introduces a compelling framework for this negotiated, uneven, and deeply political process: differentiated militarized citizenship.Carefully balancing operational, political, and social histories, Zeedan traces the experiences of the Arab soldiers in the IDF from the years preceding the establishment of the state through the 1970s, including the 1948 War, the 1956 Suez Crisis, and the 1973 War. These moments of armed conflict became flashpoints, wherein the need for more service members was negotiated alongside intensifying debates over identity and loyalty.Zeedan argues that the IDF acted as both a ladder and a gate, offering status, employment, and opportunities for civic integration for some Arab groups, while also setting the boundaries for that inclusion. Amid the highly dynamic period of early statehood, the Israeli state used military service as a tool for differentiation, surveillance, and the establishment of unequal belonging. At the same time, some Arab communities exercised their own agency, actively shaping outcomes alongside the state despite very unequal positions of power.The Ladder and the Gate is a groundbreaking history that offers a deeper understanding of the complexities of minority-majority relations, military-civilian dynamics, and nation-building processes, revealing how military service functions as both a tool for integration and a means of control.
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Rami Zeedan is Associate Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Kansas and is the founding Editor in Chief of the Druze Studies Journal. He is the author of The Arab-Palestinian Society in the Israeli Political System: Integration versus Segregation in the Twenty-First Century and Battalion of Arab: The History of the Minorities' Unit in the IDF from 1948 to 1956.

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"Drawing on extensive archival research, Rami Zeedan’s The Ladder and the Gate: Arab Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces and the Creation of Militarized Citizenship, 1948–1973 offers the first comprehensive historical account of non-Jewish Arab soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces from 1948 to 1973. Moving beyond existing sociological and ethnographic accounts, he provides a detailed analysis of the military role and political incorporation of Druze and Bedouin units within the IDF. This important book makes a major contribution to the study of civil–military relations, minority incorporation, and the unequal dynamics of citizenship in Israel."—Dr. Yagil Levy, the Head of The Open University Institute for the Study of Civil-Military Relations, Israel"Zeedan provides the most authoritative source to date on the history of Arab soldiers in the Israel Defense Force. Meticulously researched and expertly told, the relevance of the analysis extends well beyond Arab military service, illuminating the complex dynamics of citizenship hierarchies, belonging, and social mobility."—Oded Haklai, Professor of Political Studies at Queen’s University, and author of Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel"This is the most comprehensive and important book written on the issue of the recruitment of Palestinian Arabs into the Israeli military. The purpose of this book is to examine the recruitment of Arabs into the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) from both historical and sociological perspectives. It explores the motivations behind the recruitment of Arabs, their contributions to Israel’s security—particularly during various wars—and, on the other hand, the impact of military service on the construction of their identity and their integration into the state as equal citizens. And this book does justice to the issue of Druze conscription, addressing it within the broader context of the Arab population as a whole."—Rabah Halabi, author of Israeli and Palestinian Identities in DialogueI"This timely and necessary book examines how the politics of military service shaped the relationship between the Israeli state and its Palestinian citizens. Through impressive archival research and sharp analysis, Rami Zeedan shows how military service delineated the changing terms of exclusion and limited incorporation under a differentiated militarized citizenship. Readers interested in military history, civil-military relations, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, will find much to admire and learn from in this book."—Shaul Mitelpunkt, author of Israel in the American Mind: The Cultural-Politics of US–Israeli Relations, 1958–1988"This is a genuine documentation of the status and the motives of Arab enrollment in the Israeli army."—Eduardo Wassim Aboultaif, Assistant Professor, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, and author of Armed Forces in Deeply Divided Societies: Lebanon, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iraq and Burundi: Militaries in Power-Sharing Systems

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