International Terrorism: Challenge and Response ; [the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]

BenjÄ mîn NetanyÄ hû

Transaction Publishers, Jun 1, 1981 - History - 383 pages

In 1979, several world reknowned politicians, ambassadors, academicians, and journalists met at the Jerusalem Conference on Terrorism to discuss the origins, nature, and future of terrorism and to propose measures for combatting and defeating the international terror movements. This conference marked a turning point in the world's understanding of the problem of terrorism and what has to be done about it. This excellent collection of articles expressing a broad range of political opinion on terrorism makes available for the first time the contents of that conference.

Contents

• OPENING REMARKS: 1
• THE THREAT AND THE RESPONSE: 6
• THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF TERRORISM: 10
• THE TYRANNY OF TERRORISM: 21
• TERRORISM AS A WEAPON IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: 31
• FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND TERRORISTS: 37
• STATE SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: 45
• OPENING REMARKS: 47
• THE ROOTS OF THE INVOLVEMENT: 56
• SOVIET SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: 62
• ARAB STATE SUPPORT FOR TERRORISM: 71
• OVERCOMING THE CLIMATE OF APPEASEMENT: 77
• THE STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK: 88
• Questions and Answers: 99
• THE THREAT POSED BY TERRORISM TO DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES: 107
• OPENING REMARKS: 109
• TERRORISM VERSUS DEMOCRACY: 113
• THE THREAT OF TERRORISM IN A BROADER CONCEPT: 120
• THE TERRORIST STATE: 126
• THE ARAB WORLD OIL AND TERRORISM: 133
• THE SPECTRE OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM: 139
• CAN NUCLEAR TERRORISM BE NEUTRALIZED?: 144
• Questions and Answers: 153
• CURRENT RESPONSE OF DEMOCRATIC SOCITIES: 158
• OPENING REMARKS: 160
• THE DUTCH RESPONSE: 163
• PUBLIC OPINION INTELLECTUALS AND TERRORISM IN WESTERN EUROPE: 170
• THE IRISH RESPONSE: 178
• THE UNSEEN HAND: 185
• ITALIAN RESPONSES: 194
• DEMOCRACY AND TERRORISM: 199
• CALCULATING THE PUBLIC INTEREST: 206
• Questions and Answers: 212
• TERRORISM AND THE MEDIA: 219
• THE CASE OF WEST GERMANY: 221
• CAGING THE BEASTS: 228
• THE SUBTLE COLLUSION: 233
• THE NEED FOR CLARITY: 240
• A POLITICS OF FREEDOM IS THE ANSWER: 243
• LIBERTY OR LICENSE?: 248
• Questions and Answers: 251
• PROPOSED COUNTERMEASURES FOR THE DEMOCRATIC WORLD: 261
• OPENING REMARKS: 263
• TERROR IN IRELAND AND BRITAINS RESPONSE: 274
• MAINTAINING THE BALANCE: 281
• PROTECTING THE AIRWAYS: 287
• LEGAL MEASURES TO CONTROL TERRORISM IN DEMOCRACIES: 292
• PREEMPTING TERROR: 305
• FIGHTING TERROR WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK: 311
• NO TO TERRORISM IN ANY GUISE: 316
• THE CHALLENGE TO FREE MEN: 323
• TERRORISM AND THE GULAG: 328
• THE US AND THE FIGHT AGAINST INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM: 330
• THE PREFERRED ROUTE: 336
• THE MYTH AND THE REALITY OF THE PLO: 341
• THE CURSE OF COMPLICITY: 348
• LORD CHALFONTS CLOSING REMARKS: 357
• INDEX: 361

Popular passages

Page 31 - His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength I will dare, and dare, and dare, until I die. I will go out now to the common people, and let the love in their eyes comfort me for the hate in yours. You will all be glad to see me burnt; but if I go through the fire I shall go through it to their hearts for ever and ever.‎

Page 268 - Until a more complete code of the laws of war has been issued, the High Contracting Parties deem it expedient to declare that, in cases not included in the Regulations adopted by them, the inhabitants and the belligerents remain under the protection and the rule of the principles of the law of nations, as they result from the usages established among civilized peoples, from the laws of humanity, and the dictates of the public conscience.‎

Page 268 - The law of war is to be found not only in treaties, but in the customs and practices of states which gradually obtained universal recognition, and from the general principles of justice applied by jurists and practised by military courts. This law is not static, but by continual adaptation follows the needs of a changing world. Indeed, in many cases treaties do no more than express and define for more accurate reference the principles of law already existing.‎

Page 97 - Our Party supports and will continue to support peoples fighting for their freedom. In so doing, the Soviet Union does not look for advantages, does not hunt for concessions, does not seek political domination, and is not after military bases. We act as we are bid by our revolutionary conscience, our communist convictions.‎

Page 52 - Measures to prevent international terrorism which endangers or takes innocent human lives or jeopardizes fundamental freedoms, and study of the underlying causes of those forms of terrorism and acts of violence which lie in misery, frustration, grievance and despair and which cause some people to sacrifice human lives, including their own, in an attempt to effect radical changes.‎

Page 11 - ... laws, and manners, which so advantageously distinguish, above the rest of mankind, the Europeans and their colonies. The savage nations of the globe are the common enemies of civilized society; and we may inquire with anxious curiosity whether Europe is still threatened with a repetition of those calamities which formerly oppressed the arms and institutions of Rome.‎

Page 14 - Violence alone, violence committed by the people, violence organized and educated by its leaders, makes it possible for the masses to understand social truths and gives the key to them.‎

Page 14 - For in the first days of the revolt you must kill: to shoot down a European is to kill two birds with one stone, to destroy an oppressor and the man he oppresses at the same time: there remains a dead man and a free man...‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: International Terrorism: Challenge and Response ; [the Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism]
• Editor: BenjÄ mîn NetanyÄ hû
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers, 1981
• ISBN: 1412826497, 9781412826495
• Length: 383 pages
• Subjects: History / Military / General; History / Military / Strategy; Political Science / Law Enforcement