![]() ![]() At the outset, the Arabs sought to limit Jewish immigration and territorial ambitions, while making Palestine ungovernable for the British. xiii) With the release in 2003 of British Security Service (MI5) documents covering the British struggles in Palestine after WWI and drawing on related firsthand diplomatic accounts, Hoffman was able to analyze the emergence of terrorism as a tool by the Arabs and Jews to achieve their goals. Hoffman’s interest in this topic began while studying terrorism at Oxford University, when he became aware of the “centrality of intelligence” to the study of history in general and terrorism in particular. x) Anonymous Soldiers answers these questions using the Arab-Zionist conflict as a case study. Military Academy’s Combatting Terrorism Center, asks, if it doesn’t work, “why has it persisted for at least the past two millennia and indeed become an increasingly popular means of violent political expression in the 21st century?” (p. Bruce Hoffman, director of the security studies program at Georgetown University and senior fellow at the U.S. Peake Ĭan terrorism succeed? Can it achieve the social and political goals its advocates advance? The conventional wisdom is that, in the long run, it cannot. Palestine–Politics and government–1917-1948.Ĭomplied and Reviewed by Hayden B.Zionism–Palestine–History–20th century.Counterinsurgency–Palestine–History–20th century.Anonymous Soldiers: The Struggle for Israel, 1917-1947. ![]()
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