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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463753403321

Autore

Israeli Raphael

Titolo

War, peace and terror in the Middle East / / Raphael Israeli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-315-03942-7

1-135-29554-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

956.05/3

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Peace

Terrorism - Middle East

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 2003 by Frank Cass publishers.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; The Predicament and Its Terminology; The Original Sin; The Globalization of Islamic Terrorism; Conclusion; Notes; Part 1: Commitments, Ideologies and Incitement; 1. Arafat's Peace; The Double-Talk of Redemption; Hamas Challenge; The Hudaybiyya Model; Jihad and Jerusalem; The Historical Replica in Arafat's Imagery; Notes; 2. Educating Palestinian Children; Introduction; Background; Building a National Myth; Self-Aggrandizement and Enemy Denigration; Jihad and Martyrdom

Significance and ConsequencesNotes; 3. Peace, Peace and No Peace; Introduction; The Egyptian Press of Late 1999 and Early 2000; The Main Themes of Hatred; Conclusions; Notes; 4. Arab and Islamic Anti-Semitism; Apologia; Sources of Arab and Islamic Anti-Semitism; Arab and Muslim Anti-Semitism in Contemporary Affairs; Notes; Part 2: War and Terror in Action; 5. The Problem is Not Saddam, but Iraq; Apologia; The Iraqi Predicament; The First Gulf War (1980-88) and its Aftermath; The Second Gulf War (1990-91); Constants in Iraq's Geo-Politics and Strategies; 6. Islamikaze and their Significance

Why Islamikaze?The Producers of Islamikaze; Afghanistan and its Clones; What Makes the Islamikaze Tick?; The Islamic Rationale; The Enemy Looms Large; The Doctrine of Jihad; Martyrdom is the Remedy;



What Can Be Done?; Deterrence; Prevention; Punishment as a Deterrent; Information and Psychological Warfare; Notes; 7. Masquerade of Terrorism; Introduction; Sampling Muslim Reactions to the New York and Washington Horror; Hypocrisy Masquerading as a Policy; Towards a Global Policy; Notes; 8. Exporting Islamic Violence to Western Democracies; The New Wave of Anti-Semitism

Imported Fury from the Middle EastOnset of the Intifada in the West; Timing of the Riots; Assaults on Diaspora Jewish Communities; Characterization and Significance; Prospects for the Future; 9. A Manual of Islamic Fundamentalist Terrorism; Introduction; Roots of the Islamikaze; Palestinian Islamikaze; The Manual of Martyrology; A Summary and a Warning; Notes; Part 3: Peace and Its Demise; 10. The Oslo Delusion; Groundless Assumptions; Eyesores and Dissonance; The Inextricability of the Dispute; Back to the Beginning; 11. Oslo is Dead, Long Live Brussels!; Apologia

European Ineptitude to DateThe Debacle of Oslo; What Needs to Be Done?; Ending the Conflict and Joining Europe; 12. TheIsraeli-Jordan Peace Agreement: A Missed Opportunity; The Essentials of the Israel-Jordan Peace Agreement (1994); When the Peace Accords Become a Trap; Squaring the Triangle; The Question of Jerusalem; Balance of Gains and Drawbacks; Stages of Implementation; 13. Armistice in Jerusalem Once Again?; Reminders of the Armistice; The Armistice Regime (1947-67); Unilateral Solutions Attempted by Israel; In the Aftermath of Oslo; Lessons and Solutions; Notes

14. Conclusion: Quantity and Quality in ConflictResolution

Sommario/riassunto

A collection of articles about the fateful issues of war and peace in the Middle East, especially the evasive brands of war - terrorism and incitement.Horrific words of incitement, followed by atrocious acts of terror, have occurred during the past few years. These have significantly eroded hope in the peace process that had been initiated by Sadat and Begin a quarter-century ago (1977).All efforts to duplicate that feat between Israel and Palestinians have ended in frustration so far, and it now seems that a tremendous amount of ground-work will have to be done before a new peace vent



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910485013403321

Titolo

Advances in Visual Computing : 5th International Symposium, ISVC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, November 30 - December 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part II / / edited by Richard Boyle, Bahram Parvin, Darko Koracin, Yoshinori Kuno, Junxian Wang, Pajarola Renato, Peter Lindstrom, Andre Hinkenjann, Miguel L. Encarnacao, Claudio T. Silva, Daniel Coming

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2009

ISBN

3-642-10520-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (LXXXVI, 1197 p.)

Collana

Image Processing, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Graphics, , 3004-9954 ; ; 5876

Altri autori (Persone)

BebisGeorge

Disciplina

006.4

Soggetti

Pattern recognition systems

User interfaces (Computer systems)

Human-computer interaction

Computer vision

Bioinformatics

Computer graphics

Image processing - Digital techniques

Automated Pattern Recognition

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction

Computer Vision

Computational and Systems Biology

Computer Graphics

Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Computer Graphics III -- Visualization II -- Detection and Tracking -- Reconstruction II -- Applications -- Video Analysis and Event Recognition -- Poster Session.

Sommario/riassunto

The two volume set LNCS 5875 and LNCS 5876 constitutes the refereed



proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, ISVC 2009, held in Las Vegas, NV, USA, in November/December 2009. The 97 revised full papers and 63 poster papers presented together with 40 full and 15 poster papers of 7 special tracks were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 320 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on computer graphics; visualization; feature extraction and matching; medical imaging; motion; virtual reality; face processing; reconstruction; detection and tracking; applications; and video analysis and event recognition. The 7 additional special tracks address issues such as object recognition; visual computing for robotics; computational bioimaging; 3D mapping, modeling and surface reconstruction; deformable models: theory and applications; visualization enhanced data analysis for health applications; and optimization for vision, graphics and medical imaging: theory and applications.