Parental Protest, Public Opinion, and War Termination: Israel's ‘Four Mothers’ Movement

Lieberfeld, Daniel

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“…For instance, domestic pressure has cut short multiple interventions. 131 Consequently, an intervention can be affected by the imposition of resolve-sapping costs, such as sustained campaigns of violence or civil disorder, launched by local actors. 132 Additionally, states not involved in an intervention have sometimes cajoled the intervener to exit and in other times pressured them to remain.…”

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Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

Pinfold

Smith

2019

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

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2019

Studies in Conflict & Terrorism

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“…Though the group later expanded to include men as well, the majority of its members were middle‐class women, some bereaved, many of whom came from the leftist kibbutz movement (cooperative farming communities), with a strong base in the north of Israel (Lieberfeld 2009). FM spearheaded an impressive campaign, calling for a unilateral and unconditional withdrawal from Lebanon, which ultimately took place in May 2000.…”

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“…Despite the unprecedented tone of protest articulated by the mothers, the movement cleverly utilized the established rules of the game. It embedded itself in the mainstream of military thought by focusing on the means and the inherent costs, rather than the ends: it targeted the politicians, not the popular IDF; it rejected the idea that soldiers should refuse to serve, and it refrained from emphasizing the harm the war caused to Lebanese civilians (Lebel 2006:169–170; Lieberfeld 2009:382–384).…”

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How Military Recruitment Affects Collective Action and its Outcomes¹

Levy

2012

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Levy, Yagil (2012) How Military Recruitment Affects Collective Action and its Outcomes. International Studies Quarterly, doi: 10.1111/j.1468‐2478.2012.00762.x  © 2012 International Studies Association This paper aims to advance the research on the conjunction of two fields—antiwar protest and casualty aversion—by offering a conceptual development of the role of military recruitment in affecting casualty sensitivity–incited antiwar mobilization. Scholars have shown that sensitivity to losses is not a constant variable. Its reflection in the public sphere is affected by variables clustered together as “the politics of war,” such as sense of threat, mission success, number of casualties, and elite consensus, which can be mediated by collective actors. However, the role of the mode of military recruitment in influencing collective action in the military realm has been neglected. It is argued that the mode of military recruitment mediates collective actors’ ability to leverage the politics of war to challenge dominant discourse and influence war policy, owing to the cumulative impact of four recruitment‐related variables: republicanism, social power, the favoring of “voice,” and bounded discourse. All shape the movement’s framing and resources in a way that affects mobilization.

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“…Along with increased attention to Israeli casualties in Lebanon, the group's argument -that the war was a costly policy failure and that ending it was patriotic -increasingly resonated with the public. Via the mediation of political institutions (the 1999 elections), this public opinion trend created a compelling incentive for Barak's decision to end the war (Lieberfeld, 2009). …”

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Media coverage and Israel’s ‘Four Mothers’ antiwar protest: agendas, tactics and political context in movement success

Lieberfeld

2009

Media, War & Conflict

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This article investigates conditions under which media coverage can enable antiwar protest to influence national security policy. Through a study of ‘Four Mothers — Leaving Lebanon in Peace’, an Israeli group that in the late 1990s protested against that country’s war in southern Lebanon, it demonstrates that: media attention was an essential factor in the group’s formation and development into a national movement; together with features of the political environment, media attention enabled the movement to mobilize public opposition to the war; important elements of the media opposed government policy and were therefore motivated to cover the movement; yet the movement’s ability to attract coverage also derived from its protest strategies and intensive media outreach. The article examines these efforts by movement leaders to increase coverage and the dilemmas that their media strategies posed for activists. The conclusions consider the case’s implications concerning the political efficacy of antiwar movements generally, and particularly those with gendered identities.

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Parental Protest, Public Opinion, and War Termination: Israel's ‘Four Mothers’ Movement

Cited by 8 publications

References 14 publications

Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

How Military Recruitment Affects Collective Action and its Outcomes¹

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Parental Protest, Public Opinion, and War Termination: Israel's ‘Four Mothers’ Movement

Cited by 8 publications

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Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

Theorizing Territorial Withdrawal: The Need to Think Strategically

How Military Recruitment Affects Collective Action and its Outcomes1

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