Pedahzur Ami (Associate Professor University Of Texas Austin) - The Israeli Secret Services And The Struggle Against Terrorism - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: While Mossad is known as one of the world's most successful terrorist - fighting organizations the state of Israel has more than once and on many levels risked the lives of its agents and soldiers through unwise intelligence - based intervention. The elimination of Palestinian leaders and militants has not decreased the incidence of Palestinian terrorism for example. In fact these incidents have become more lethal than ever and ample evidence suggests that the actions of Israeli intelligence have fueled terrorist activities across the globe. An expert on terror and political extremism Ami Pedahzur argues that Israel's strict reliance on the elite units of the intelligence community is fundamentally flawed. A unique synthesis of memoir academic research and information gathered from print and online sources Pedahzur's complex study explores this issue through Israel's past encounters with terrorists specifically hostage rescue missions the first and second wars in Lebanon the challenges of the West Bank and Gaza Palestinian terrorist groups and Hezbollah. He brings a rare transparency to Israel's counterterrorist activities highlighting their successes and failures and the factors that have contributed to these results. From the foundations of this analysis Pedahzur ultimately builds a strategy for future confrontation that will be relevant not only to Israel but also to other countries that have adopted Israel's intelligence - based model.
Title: The Israeli Secret Services And The Struggle Against Terrorism
Author(s): Pedahzur Ami (Associate Professor University Of Texas Austin)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Barcode: 9780231140423
Pages: 232 Pages, 12 Illus.
Publication Date: 2/4/2009
Series: Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
Category: Terrorism, Armed Struggle