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The Terrorist Conjunction - The United States, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and al-Qa'ida (Hardcover)
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The Terrorist Conjunction - The United States, the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and al-Qa'ida (Hardcover)
Series: Praeger Security International
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Missing from many contemporary analyses of the causes of terrorism
is any mention of the role of U.S. foreign policy, an examination
of which is seen by some critics as inherently unpatriotic. Even
less attention is paid to the role of the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Gerteiny, who has lived in the Middle East and who has
studied the region for more than four decades, does not shy away
from such controversies. In this book, he discusses the seminal
causes of contemporary transnational terrorism, particularly the
grievances inherent in the persistent Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Gerteiny examines state and anti-state forms of terrorism, and he
carefully distinguishes between terrorism carried out in pursuit of
national liberation by the Palestinians and the theologically
driven jihadism that feeds on it. He considers anti-Western
Islamism as being reactive to a U.S. Middle East policy
inordinately influenced by the Zionist lobby. He reflects on Muslim
and Islamist world views and assesses the U.S. reaction to
terrorism after 9/11, including the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Israel's unchecked expansionism at the expense of Palestine and its
suffocating grip over its population, carried out under the cover
of U.S. protection, constitute ethnic cleansing in Gerteiny's view.
This, and the ill-conceived U.S. strategy in the Gulf region, in
Afghanistan and Iraq, and the lack of communications with Syria and
Iran are perceived by most Muslims as harbingers of an ongoing new
"crusade." They constitute the main pernicious elements upon which
the wider-reaching vengeful Islamist "theopolitical" jihadism
thrives, ultimately threatening the spread of democracy, the
survival of Israel in theMiddle East, and peaceful coexistence with
the Muslim world.
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