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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787989103321

Autore

Israeli Raphael

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

1-135-29561-1

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

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