Description - Continuity and Change in Israeli Security Policy by Mark A. Heller
Half a century after Israel's foundation as a state, this paper examines the bases of the country's security policy, and analyses the impact on it of changes in the external threat environment, and in domestic politics and society. It argues that the changing nature of the threat confronting Israel, together with political challenges to the basic assumptions underlying security policy, such as permanent Arab hostility, have made the traditional security concept obsolete, and necessitate its reformulation. While the nature of these new challenges will be determined mostly by the political context in which they evolve, especially Israel's relations with the Arab world, Israeli domestic politics and social change will also be important. Here, two changes are key: the breakdown of the traditional policy consensus after 1967; and the breakdown of Israel's traditional social consensus and central sustaining myths. Two contesting currents have emerged within Israeli politics and society: one outward-looking and modernist, the other inward-looking and traditionalist. Israelis must make a choice between these two alternative views of their country's future.
The nature of this choice will have profound implications, both for Israel's security policy, and for its capacity to deal with the new threats which confront it.
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