ABSTRACT
Nadia Abu El-Haj refers appropriately to the monitoring of caloric intake as 'the calculus of Israel's necropolitical regime'. Israel is constantly seeking justifications for its military conduct, and there is no shortage of legal experts and other apologists at home who are prepared to lend support to the practices of the Israeli army. Asa Kasher, a philosopher at Tel Aviv University, explained in newspaper interviews the ethical justifications for the conduct of the Israeli army in its confrontation with Palestinian fighters, regardless of the high civilian cost. Israel has been careful to vary the methods of dialectical repression in dealing with the Palestinians in the West Bank, compared to in Lebanon, where, in the aftermath of its 1982 invasion, it became apparent that the massacres in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila by Israel's protege the Lebanese Christian Phalange were carried out with Israel's full knowledge and complicity.
