Soldiering under occupation: Processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Soldiering Under Occupation: Processes of Numbing among Israeli Soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1-148

  Grassiani, Erella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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