How Did the Jewish Community Manage to Reconcile War and Democracy in the Creation and Perpetuation of the Israeli State?

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[...] Israeli citizens are turning to the will of technological development in accordance with a strong patriotic deceleration on the Israeli territory. The Israeli democratic honor is no longer on the military field. The army was planning to call up only 60% of the eighteen-year-old citizens for the army, of which only 60% will do their military service, it is now the religious and the popular social categories that go to the army the most, now abandoned by the rest of the citizens. [...]

[...] They were born to defend their honor and their land with a hatred of the enemy. It is in the Israel Defense Forces (Haganah 1948: Tsahal) that the national spirit, the democratic spirit, and the spirit of sacrifice are best manifested. The army has also become the school of Israeli democracy, which must transform each soldier into an Israeli citizen, including the establishment of Hebrew courses. This strong interest was motivated in particular by the feeling of a Jewish state threatened with extinction. [...]

[...] How Did the Jewish Community Manage to Reconcile War and Democracy in the Creation and Perpetuation of the Israeli State? I am going to give you a presentation on democracy and war in the Israeli state, based on the writings of Ran Halevi. Ran Halevi is a French historian, born in 1950, director of research at the CNRS. His research focuses on the political history of France as well as on Israeli political history. He has a degree in history and literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a master's degree in history from the Sorbonne, and a doctorate in political history from the EHESS, under the direction of François Furet. [...]

[...] Despite an initially pacifist will, the Jewish community has never ignored violence, and in particular it experienced major pogroms at the beginning of the 20th century. However, it was much later that the idea of linking democratic and military institutions became evident. It was after the Arab revolts of the late 1930s that they realized that war was inevitable, and that war became part of the Zionist project. A spectacular increase in military strength took place on the eve of the creation of the State of Israel, the new Israeli generation was determined and driven by a strong patriotism and an unwavering will for national defense. [...]

[...] For this reason, we will ask the question: How did the Jewish community manage to reconcile war and democracy in the creation and perpetuation of the Israeli state? We will first dwell on the identity and origin of Israeli democracy before discussing Israel's inseparable links to war. Israel, a Nation present before the State A. A strong identity that is already omnipresent The author makes a direct link between Israel and Alexis de Tocqueville's definition of a nation in Democracy in America, "the national character of this people can be seen in its cradle," even before the birth of the state. [...]