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Author:   Daniel Byman (Professor, Professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, Chevy Chase MD/Washington DC)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.60cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.771kg
ISBN:  

9780195391824

ISBN 10:   0195391829
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   28 July 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"Section and Chapter Outline I. Beginnings (1940-1967) Chapter One: The Glass House (Jewish resistance to British rule) Chapter Two: Crossborder Wars (Fighting Fedayeen attacks from Jordan and Egypt) II. The Birth of International Terrorism (1967-1993) Chapter Three: The Rise of the PLO Chapter Four: The PFLP and the Birth of International Terrorism (Munich, Dawson's Field) Chapter Five: Israel Strikes Back (Operations Spring of Youth, Wrath of God, Thunderbolt, the Tunis raid, etc.) III. Counterterrorism and the Palestinian Authority (1993-2000) Chapter Six: The Dreams of Oslo Chapter Seven: The Rise of Hamas Chapter Eight: Partners? (1996 Cooperation, the Tunnel Clash, Arafat's Policies) Chapter Nine: Israel Organizes for Counterterrorism (Military and Intelligence Changes) Chapter Ten: Clouds on the Horizon (the Road to the Second Intifada) IV. The Dark Days of the Second Intifada (2000-2002) Chapter Eleven: One Million Bullets (Israel's Response to the Second Intifada) Chapter Twelve: Killing Raed Karmi (Discussion of Israel's conflicting strategies and targeted killings) V. ""Victory"" and Its Limits (2002-present) Chapter Thirteen: Entering the Hornet's Nest: The Battle of Jenin (Discussion of Operation Defensive Shield) Chapter Fourteen: Back to the Wall (Building the Security Barrier) Chapter Fifteen: Declaring Victory and Going Home (Unilateral Withdrawal from Gaza) Chapter Sixteen: Stuck in the West Bank? VI. Fighting Hezbollah (1982-2007) Chapter Seventeen: Birth of a Monster (Israel's Invasion of Lebanon and the Creation of Hezbollah) Chapter Eighteen: The Rules of the Game (Limited War with Hezbollah in the 1990s) Chapter Nineteen: The Promise of Normalcy in Lebanon (Withdrawal in 2000 and its Unfulfilled Hopes) Chapter Twenty: Hezbollah Returns (the 2006 War) VII. Jewish Terrorism Chapter Twenty One: Destroying the Abomination (Attacks on Mayors and the Plot to Blow up the Dome of the Rock) Chapter Twenty Two: To Kill a Prime Minister VIII. A Report Card Chapter Twenty Three: Evaluating Israeli Strategies Chapter Twenty Four: Public Resilience Chapter Twenty Five: Winning the Battles, Losing the War (Inevitable Tradeoffs and the Long-Term Consequences of Counterterrorism) IX. Lessons for America (and Europe) Chapter Twenty Six: Learning from Israel"

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<br> For a democracy, some ways of defeating terrorism can be a Pyrrhic victory. Byman shows us what Israel did against terrorists that failed, what worked, and what was counter-productive. We can learn from Israel's experience. We do not have to repeat their mistakes... if we know what they were. --Richard A. Clarke, author of Against All Enemies and Cyber War<br><p><br> Daniel Byman has produced a vitally important, invaluable history and analysis of Israeli counterterrorism policy and practice. His research and judgments are balanced, nuanced, grounded in evidence and highly credible. He shatters the easy myths about Israeli brilliance and bungling against its terrorist adversaries and leads us to an understanding of why it remains so important for Israel to discover a path forward that will integrate its counterterrorism tactics into a wider strategy that can produce, as the author puts it, 'peace within its borders and with its neighbors.' - Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars and T

A great introduction to Israeli counterterrorism Foreign Policy blog An admirably even-handed book The Economist Meticulously researched...a fascinating account of Israel's techniques for recruiting informants in hostile territory and its evolving efforts to make its interrogation practices conform to the strictures of international law Wall Street Journal

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Daniel Byman is Professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He has served on the 9/11 Commission staff and as an analyst with the U.S. government.

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