Normalizing Extreme Violence: The Israeli Case
On February 15, 2016, Amitai Etzioni, sociologist and professor at George Washington University, published an op-ed in Israel’s Ha’aretz titled “Should Israel Consider Using Devastating Weapons Against Hezbollah Missiles?”[1] Quoting, first, an unnamed Israeli official who claimed that Hezbollah has 100,000 missiles which pose a major security threat, Etzioni asserts that most of these missiles are located...