Terrorism
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The general argument of this study is that terrorism, as a mode of communications, is also a form of warfare; therefore, the study of warfare, particularly in its communicative aspect ("sending a message" through military action or the threat of military action). Therefore, a portion of the literature on the art and history of war falls within the purview of this study. The literature of war is of course enormous; the works considered under that heading below are those that either focus on general doctrines which are applicable to war through terrorism as well as to forms of war more conventionally identified as such, or that make specific points useful to the development of the thesis of this study. The other categories of literature relevant to this study are communications theory and the literature of terrorism. Communications theory per se is given only an extremely cursory consideration in this study, with the purpose of establishing only the general validity of treating actions, as opposed to the verbal or visual messages that we more conventionally understand to be communications, as falling within the domain of communication theory. The literature of terrorism itself falls into two broad categories. The first is historical. This category in turn comprises two sub-categories; works that either discuss terrorism or terrorism-like activity in the relatively distant past, and works that examine the development of ideologies that have been associate
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t the Irgun, the terrorist wing of the Jewish movement in pre 1947 Palestine, was dissuaded from taking violent action against Jewish moderates specifically by the historical memory of the fatal price to ancient Judea of the elimination of the moderates. More generally, he draws an analogy between events in ancient Judea and the process by which nonviolent protests in modern times have given way to violence (by an extreme wing of the protest movement, by repressive security forces, or both), then to terrorism and "counter-terror," and the elimination of a tenable political middle ground. He also remarks on the role of terrorism in ancient Judea as a possible refutation of the view that terrorists require the mass media to act as a megaphone for wide dissemination of their actions and purposes. He suggests that rumor proved adequate to that purpose in ancient Judea.
Rapoport also refers briefly to the Assassins of medieval Islam, including the striking fact that their name for themselves was fedeyeen the same term (though Rapoport does not remark on this) used by modern Palestinian guerillas and terrorists.
He also discusses the role of messianism in the development of ancient Judean terrorism, and alludes brief
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Approximate Word count = 5658
Approximate Pages = 23 (250 words per page)
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