cover image Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism

Fighting Terrorism: How Democracies Can Defeat Domestic and International Terrorism

Benjamin Netanyahu. Farrar Straus Giroux, $17 (1pp) ISBN 978-0-374-15492-9

Netanyahu, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations and currently the leader of Israel's Likud Party, asserts that the new wave of worldwide terrorism is accompanied by a steady escalation of violence--car bombs capable of bringing down entire buildings, lethal chemicals that can threaten cities--and the possibility that militant Middle Eastern states may soon possess nuclear weapons. His brief but instructive overview traces the growing linkage between international and domestic terrorism and offers practical suggestions for combatting both. Netanyahu envisions a U.S.-led program of counterterrorism that would include the imposition of diplomatic, economic and military sanctions against governments that support terrorism (such as Hamas cells in Gaza); the neutralization of terrorist enclaves; and the sharing of relevant intelligence by the Western democracies. (Oct.)