An Examination of Israel's Approach to Preparing for Suicide Bomb Terrorism and How its Strategies Might be Implemented in the United States



An Examination of Israel's Approach to Preparing for Suicide Bomb Terrorism and How its Strategies Might be Implemented in the United States

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Subject: An Examination of Israel's Approach to Preparing for Suicide Bomb Terrorism and how its strategies could be implemented in the United States

Purpose: Formulating a framework to tackle suicide bomb terrorism

Background

Terrorism involves heterogeneous violence used or threatened with a political aim. It can involve a variety of acts, targets, and actors. It possesses an important psychological dimension, producing terror or fear among a directly threatened group and also a wider implied audience in the hope of maximizing political communication and achievement. It embodies the exerting and implementing of power, and the attempted redressing of power relations; it represents a subspecies of warfare, and as such it can form part of a wider campaign of violent and non-violent attempts at political leverage. However, the modern world has seen a drastic transformation of terrorism to be used as a tool. In today's world terrorism tends to be used as a way to communicate or speak to the world.

This also highlights the fact that terrorism is a tool used to speak out or to highlight your demands in front of the concerned authorities and in front of the whole wide world. The communicative aspect of the terrorism tends to draw its roots from the Schmid and Jongman's definition which was tabled in 1988. This also presses importance on the fact that terrorism is certainly a form of communication. In the light of the pretext of the paper it won't be wrong to state the fact that suicide bombing is continuously used for communicating the demands of a group, sponsoring it to the whole world. Before moving further in the context of the paper it is essential to develop an efficient understanding of the notion of suicide attack. A suicide attack is a type of attack whose realization requires the intentional death of its author. It is usually organized by groups of soldiers or paramilitaries in order to destabilize the institutions established by some considered an enemy. The roots of the suicide terrorism or suicide bombings tend to be drawn from the period of World War II. The idea was initially propagated by Japanese army during World War II. Many experts tends to render suicide bombing as the situation in which an attacker kills himself, thus excluding situations in which an attacker fully expects to be killed by others in an attack. It also sees the rising to the surface when in asymmetrical conflicts where one of the opponents has firepower significantly lower than the other. However, some authors have challenged this interpretation, noting for example that the Tamil Tigers had made ??the most use of this tactic when they were in a strong position. However, this tactic is most often used by guerrillas or paramilitary groups, although it is often ...