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By Randall S. Geller
This study examines majority-minority relations in Israel during the state's formative decade through the prism of its military forces. It analyzes how the leadership balanced its disparate commitments and argues that the state's social, political, and strategic decisions regarding non-Jewish minorities reverberate to the present.
IntroductionChapter 1: David Ben-Gurion and the Dilemma of Arab Service in the Israel Defense ForcesChapter 2: The Background to and Formation of the Minorities Unit in 1948Chapter 3: Druze and Jews after the Transition to Statehood, Fall 1948 to Early 1949Chapter 4: The Druze and the State, 1949¿53, Culminating in a Short-Term Druze Conscription PlanChapter 5: An Abortive Effort to Draft the Entire Arab Population, 1954Chapter 6: The Druze Draft, 1956Chapter 7: The Rise and Demise of a Christian Arab UnitChapter 8: Bedouin Service in the IDF, 1948¿57Chapter 9: The Recruitment and Conscription of the Circassian Community into the Israel Defense Forces, 1948¿58Chapter 10: Conclusion