Thorough, careful, knowledgeable

Thorough, careful, knowledgeable

A High Price: The Triumph And Failures Of Israeli Counterterrorism (Saban Center At The Brookings Institution Books) (Paperback)

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Daniel Byman describes and analyzes the history of anti-Israel terrorism on the one hand and the anti-terrorist measures taken by Israel, on the other side. The time horizon is between the time immediately before the state of Israel until about 2010. The result is an extremely knowledgeable, thorough and carefully crafted book that the terrorism of various secular Palestinian groups over Hamas and Hezbollah and terrorism by Jewish Israelis themselves or the various agents of the Counter Terrorism of military invasion to targeted killings include everything that was important in this period. Byman succeeds masterfully to remain entirely neutral and balanced on this terrain mined. His presentation and analysis do not follow the narrative of any party, but it succeeds at the same time, to create an understanding of the perceptions, actions and mistakes of all those involved. This scientific Abgewogenheit applies facing criticism from human rights activists in Europe and the US on Israeli actions.

So it has become a book that is addressed to all people who are interested, is founded with the issue of terrorism, realistic and seriously deal with. The teachings that attracts Byman, and he responds again by the introduction to the final chapter, this apply far beyond the scene the Middle East. Simple answers are available in the fight against terrorism is not that it is clear. No matter what you choose, and it may as Byman proves also good arguments for certain violent actions give you are always other objectives and goods or puts them at risk.

In the course of reading an increasingly strong pessimism has set in me. If you read page after page, how bad violence and counter-violence is as the fronts continues to harden, as well as large sections of the population at large of all sides barely peace and to compromise appear and exert appropriate pressure on the respective political leadership, seems it almost impossible to me that in the Middle East, a stable and lasting peace can be established.

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