Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism: The Israeli-Palestinian Case

Cohen, Hillel; Dudai, Ron

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“…The lengthy period of political violence and terrorism in Northern Ireland highlights the difficulties states face when trying to counter terrorism, which are not confined to Northern Ireland alone (Cohen & Dudai, 2005). Terrorists in Northern Ireland, as is the case elsewhere, operated in a covert and clandestine manner to minimize the possibility of penetration by informants and discovery of their activities by the security forces.…”

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Countering terrorism through the use of informants: the Northern Ireland experience

Cochrane

Monaghan

2012

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

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Countering terrorism through the use of informants: the Northern Ireland experience

Cochrane

Monaghan

2012

Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression

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“…Moreover, the Israeli policy of recruiting and using informers, carried out in mass numbers and over a long period of time, created a culture of suspicion, which impeded the building of a Palestinian civil society, and hampered the emergence of groups and individuals who genuinely pursued moderate agendas, as many of these were immediately branded as "collaborators" (Cohen and Dudai 2005). It should be emphasized that even after Oslo and the redeployment, Israel did not stop its recruitment and use of Palestinian informers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These include, for example, illegitimate methods of pressure in recruitment attempts, collaborators who took part in illegal activities such as torture, and summary executions of collaborators by Palestinian militants (Cohen and Dudai 2005).…”

Section: Collaboration In Israel/palestinementioning

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Triangle of Betrayal: Collaborators and Transitional Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Dudai

Cohen²

2007

Journal of Human Rights

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This article addresses the phenomenon of collaboration and societal reaction to it in the Israeli-Palestinian context. The authors identify a "triangle of betrayal": the Palestinian collaborators' betrayal of their communities; the betrayal of the communities who often use the label of collaboration as a pretext for abuses; and the betrayal of the Israeli government who often receives services from the collaborators and later abandons them to their fate. A transitional justice framework is proposed as a potential means to respond to this complex legacy.Betrayal is the only truth that sticks (Arthur Miller, After the Fall)The Israeli "disengagement" from Gaza is far from a full end-of-conflict initiative, yet it can be seen as a "simulation" of limited peace, as an exercise-or improvised dress rehearsalin what an end, or a substantial transformation, of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may look like. When the fog of violence clears, the actors are exposed in their predicted roles: Jewish colonial settlers reluctantly pulled from their houses back to Israel, Israeli soldiers withdraw to new lines, Palestinians who suffered under these soldiers and settlers would be able to enjoy a slightly higher level of freedom, and civilians inside Israel fear rocket attacks from liberated Gaza. Dilemmas and concerns abound-the fate of the houses left behind, security arrangements, control of borders. Yet in the hundreds of journalistic pieces, think-tanks' position papers and legal analyses, few have paid attention to an awkward actor, which does not fit clearly in our predicted categories-Palestinian collaborators.

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“…Less developed but growing is the study of “political” informing against social movements or in terrorism prosecutions (Cunningham ; Jeffries ; Said ). In the contexts of political violence such as Northern Ireland and Israel‐Palestine, the question of political rather than criminal informing has taken the lead even if the available research pales in the face of the prominent role played by informers in these contexts (Cohen ; Cohen & Dudai , ; Dudai ).…”

Section: Israeli Security and Policing Agencies And Palestinian Citizmentioning

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Legal Emotions: An Ethnography of Distrust and Fear in the Arab Districts of an Israeli City

Pasquetti¹

2013

Law Soc Rev

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Recent sociolegal scholarship has explored the role of emotions in lawmaking and policymaking on security and crime issues. This article extends this approach to the relationship between law enforcement and affect by addressing the role of policing and security agencies in the (re)production of long‐term emotions, which bind a collective and fuel ethnonational division. An ethnography of the distinct emotional climate within the Arab districts of Lod, an Israeli city, shows that this climate is structured by two emotions: rampant distrust toward friends and neighbors, and intense fear of the Israeli authorities. This emotional climate is the product of the subterranean ties of Lod Palestinians with the Israeli security agencies as well as their experiences of the blurred line between state security and crime control enforcement. I embed the initial creation and relative stability of this emotional climate in the broader relationship between the Israeli state and its Palestinian citizens from 1948 to the present. The article concludes with a discussion of how the law enforcement's affective production has consequences for the salience and scope of citizenship and by arguing for a greater focus on the link between law enforcement, collective emotions, and processes of inclusion and exclusion.

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Human Rights Dilemmas in Using Informers to Combat Terrorism: The Israeli-Palestinian Case

Cited by 43 publications

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Countering terrorism through the use of informants: the Northern Ireland experience

Countering terrorism through the use of informants: the Northern Ireland experience

Triangle of Betrayal: Collaborators and Transitional Justice in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Legal Emotions: An Ethnography of Distrust and Fear in the Arab Districts of an Israeli City

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