Over the course of its existence, Israel has suffered more from terrorism than perhaps any other country in the world. The second intifada, to name only one of Israel's recent terrorism challenges, has led to over 1,000 Israeli deaths. And the Palestinians have lost far more, as Israel responded to the intifada with frequent and devastating force. In A High Price, Daniel Byman provides an authoritative dual history of terrorism against Israel and the state's often disproportionate responses to it. This is not just an Israeli and Palestinian story, however; the techniques terrorists have used against Israel have often been harbingers of new forms of international terrorism. When Palestinian leftists first hijacked several airplanes flying to Israel, the world dismissed it as a problem that only Israelis would have to deal with. Over a decade later, suicide bombing was invented as a weapon to fight Israel and its perceived allies in Lebanon. Israel's counterterrorism efforts are also rich in lessons for other nations, both in what to do and in what to avoid. Israel often displays dazzling creativity and innovation in fighting terrorists. Too often, however, it ignores the long-term implications of its tactics, often perpetuating problems rather than solving them. America and other democratic states can gain insight into one of the essential issues of counterterrorism: the tradeoff between killing, arresting, and otherwise prevailing over terrorists seeking tokill you today, and the risks of alienating swathes of the population the terrorists seek to lead. A High Price explores Israeli counterterrorism policy since the state's creation, focusing both on the accomplishments of the Jewish state and where it has fallen short. INDICE: 1: Chapter One: The Glass House (Jewish resistance to British rule); 2: ; Chapter Two: Crossborder Wars (Fighting Fedayeen attacks from Jordan and Egypt); 3: Chapter Three: The Rise of the PLO; 4: Chapter Four: The PFLP and the Birth of International Terrorism; (Munich, Dawson's Field); 5: Chapter Five: Israel Strikes Back; (Operations Spring of Youth, Wrath of God, Thunderbolt, the Tunis raid, etc.); 6: Chapter Six: The Dreams of Oslo; 7: Chapter Seven: The Rise of Hamas; 8: Chapter Eight: Partners? (1996 Cooperation, the Tunnel Clash, Arafat's Policies); 9: Chapter Nine: Israel Organizes for Counterterrorism (Military and Intelligence Changes); 10: Chapter Ten: Clouds on the Horizon (the Road to the Second Intifada); 11: Chapter Eleven: One Million Bullets(Israel's Response to the Second Intifada); 12: Chapter Twelve: Killing Raed Karmi; (Discussion of Israel's conflicting strategies and targeted killings); 13: Chapter Thirteen: Entering the Hornet's Nest: The Battle of Jenin; (Discussion of Operation Defensive Shield); 14: Chapter Fourteen: Back to the Wall (Building the Security Barrier); 15: Chapter Fifteen: Declaring Victory and Going Home (Unilateral Withdrawal from Gaza); 16: Chapter Sixteen: Stuck in the West Bank?; 17: Chapter Seventeen: Birth of a Monster (Israel's Invasion of Lebanon; and the Creation of Hezbollah); 18: Chapter Eighteen: The Rules of the Game (Limited War with Hezbollah in the 1990s); 19: Chapter Nineteen: The Promise of Normalcy in Lebanon (Withdrawal in 2000 and its; Unfulfilled Hopes); 20: Chapter Twenty: Hezbollah Returns (the 2006 War); 21: Chapter Twenty One: Destroying the Abomination; (Attacks on Arab Mayors and the Plot to Blow up the Dome of the Rock); 22: Chapter Twenty Two: To Kill a Prime Minister; 23: ChapterTwenty Three: Evaluating Israeli Strategies; 24: Chapter Twenty Four: Public Resilience; 25: Chapter Twenty Five: Winning the Battles, Losing the War (Inevitable Tradeoffs and; the Long-Term Consequences of Counterterrorism); 26: Chapter Twenty Six: Learning from Israel
- ISBN: 978-0-19-539182-4
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 496
- Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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