Legitimitate și securitizare. Partidele politice din Israel și abordarea securitãþii naþionale
Legitimacy and securitization. Israel’s Political Parties and the approach to national security

Summary/Abstract: This paper attempts to analyze the issue of legitimacy that political parties in Israel gain through the invocation of security problems. The issue of this kind of legitimacy has concerned the academic community in the field of security studies especially after the end of the Cold War. One of the approaches which had a considerable impact and which the author will employ in this analysis was the securitization theory. This analysis will refer to the securitization used by the political parties between 1992-2009, including the electoral campaign and the elections this year. The author chose this period because it includes significant evolutions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which modified the ways of securitizing different issues. This was a period of unprecedented fluctuations between peace initiatives and military confrontation and it includes the first and second Intifada with the peace process in between. The present analysis will focus on the four most important parties in Israel right now (Kadima, Likud, Israel Beiteinu and the Labor Party) because their securitizations have the most chances of success given their public/electoral support. On the other hand, these parties roughly represent the Israeli political spectrum from right to left. Nonetheless, the author will mention the positions of other parties if they are relevant for the analysis.

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