ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on the implications of the discourse competition in Israel during and after the second intifada. It comes back to the importance of the category of existential threat and its role in constructing “necessity” and examines the role of democracy in the narrative competition. The chapter argues that security policies are not mere strategic tools used to respond to objective threats but the result of particular narrations in which the meaning of democracy and the boundaries of the polity are disputed, negotiated and reshaped.
