The discourses of "psychology" and the "normalization" of war in contemporary Israel

Militarism and Israeli Society

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 280-303

  Lomsky Feder, Edna ^a   Ben Ari, Eyal ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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