Israel, Palestine and terror
By: edited by Stephen Law.
Contributors: Law, Stephen.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780826497932
Subjects: Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-; Terrorism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Palestinian Arabs -- Politics and government; Military occupation -- Social aspects -- West Bank; Military occupation -- Social aspects -- Gaza Strip; Israel -- Politics and government -- 1993-
Description: "This book brings together the thoughts of 15 leading philosophers on one of the most important political and cultural crises of our time." "Many of us are beginning to realize the extent to which terrorism and the Israel/Palestine conflict - and the ways in which we handle then - are likely to be determining factors in shaping the West of the future. This short and accessible book introduces the key issues from a philosophical perspective."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Terrorisms in Palestine / Ted Honderich; title: Terror / Tomis Kapitan; title: The morality of Palestinian terrorism / Timothy Shanahan; title: Killing the innocent / Richard Norman; title: Terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict / Igor Primoratz; title: Terrorism and justice : some useful truisms / Noam Chomsky; title: Terror in Palestine : a non-violent alternative? / Stephen Law; title: Casting the first stone : who can, and who can't, condemn the terrorists / Gerald Cohen; title: Murder and morality : Professor Honderich on Israel and the Palestinians / Ardon Lyon; title: Terror and expected collateral damage : the case for moral equivalence / Michael Neumann; title: In a world of uneasy virtue / William L. McBride; title: Talk and terror : the value of just-war arguments in the context of terror / Patrick Riordan; title: Territory and terrorism in Israel / Tamar Meisels; title: Cosmopolitanism in a time of terror / Sharon Anderson-Gold; title: Tricks of memory : Auschwitz and the question of Palestinian terrorism / Brian Klug.