Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, world experts on the study of terror and security, propose a theory of violence that contextualizes not only recent acts of terror but also instances of terrorism that stretch back centuries. Beginning with ancient Palestine and its encounters with Jewish terrorism, the authors analyze the social, political, and cultural factors that sponsor extreme violence, proving religious terrorism is not the fault of one faith, but flourishes within any counterculture that adheres to a totalistic ideology.
When a totalistic community perceives an external threat, the connectivity of the group and the rhetoric of its leaders bolster the collective mindset of members, who respond with violence. In ancient times, the Jewish sicarii of Judea carried out stealth assassinations against their Roman occupiers. In the mid-twentieth century, to facilitate their independence, Jewish groups committed acts of terror against British soldiers and the Arab population in Palestine. More recently, Yigal Amir, a member of a Jewish terrorist cell, assassinated Yitzhak Rabin to express his opposition to the Oslo Peace Accords.
Conducting interviews with former Jewish terrorists, political and spiritual leaders, and law-enforcement officials, and culling information from rare documents and surveys of terrorist networks, Pedahzur and Perliger construct an extensive portrait of terrorist aggression, while also describing the conditions behind the modern rise of zealotry.
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- LIFE IN THE COUNTERCULTURE
- THE CATASTROPHIC EVENT
- THE DYNAMIC AND CAUSES OF RADICALIZATION
- METHOD
- BOOK STRUCTURE
- CHAPTER 1. ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY: The Founding Myths
- HASMONEANS
- TERRORISM IN JERUSALEM
- JEWISH POLITICAL ACTIVISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
- CHAPTER 2. EARLY AND MID- TWENTIETH CENTURY: Ethno- Religious Terrorism
- THE SPLIT BETWEEN THE ETZEL AND THE LEHI
- THE ASSASSINATION OF LORD MOYNE
- FROM THE SEASON TO THE UNITED RE SIS TANCE MOVEMENT
- THE PARTITION PLAN
- THE ASSASSINATION OF ISRAEL KASTNER
- KINGDOM OF ISRAEL (THE TZRIFIN UNDERGROUND)
- BRIT HAKANAIM (COVENANT OF THE ZEALOTS)
- CHAPTER 3. THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS: The Struggle over the Promised Land
- THE ATTACK ON THE MAYORS
- THE CRISIS OF THE CAMP DAVID ACCORDS
- THE JEWISH UNDERGROUND
- THE FOUNDING CLIQUE
- VENGEANCE
- REMOVING THE ABOMINATION
- THE MASSACRE AT THE ISLAMIC COLLEGE
- THE EXPOSURE OF THE NETWORK AND CONCLUSIONS
- CHAPTER 4. MEIR KAHANE AND THE KACH MOVEMENT: Jews Against Israelis
- HEBRON THEN AND NOW
- FROM JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE TO KAHANIST COUNTERCULTURE
- EARLY DAYS
- YOEL LERNER
- THE MODERN HASMONEAN REVOLT
- THE STRUGGLE IN SINAI
- TNT
- THE COMMITTEE FOR THE SAFETY OF THE ROADS
- THE DISCIPLES
- GOD OF VENGEANCE
- CHAPTER 5. THE ASSASSINATION OF YITZHAK RABIN
- THE VENGEANCE UNDERGROUND
- THE YIGAL AMIR GROUP
- THE PLOT
- FORMATION OF THE NETWORK
- CHAPTER 6. THE SECOND INTIFADA: Vengeance
- THE HILLTOP YOUTH
- THE BAT AYIN GROUP
- THE WITHDRAWAL FROM GAZA
- GUSH KATIF
- SA NUR
- KFAR TAPUACH
- AMONA
- CHAPTER 7. ECCENTRIC CULTS, VENGEANCES, AND LONE WOLVES
- UZI MESHULAM CULT
- THE JERUSALEM GROUPS: THE EIN KEREM GROUP AND THE LIFTA GANG
- SPONTANEOUS VENGEANCE
- INTERIM SUMMARY: THE EXCEPTIONAL GROUPS
- MENTAL HEALTH AND EXTERNAL EVENTS
- VENGEANCE, COUNTERCULTURE, AND MENTAL DISTURBANCES
- THE LONE AVENGERS
- THE MINDSET OF THE LONE WOLVES
- CHAPTER 8. IN THE NAME OF GOD, THE PEOPLE, AND THE LAND: Reassessment of the Causes of Jewish Terrorism
- COMPARING JEWISH TERRORISM WITH OTHER MANIFESTATIONS OF RELIGIOUS TERRORISM
- CONCLUDING REMARKS : LOOKING AHEAD
- GLOSSARY
- CHRONOLOGY OF ATTACKS AND EVENTS RELATEDTO JEWISH TERRORISM
- NOTES
- INDEX
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