Abstract
In this chapter, we discuss the following questions: Do global populations and the populations of Western countries in particular stand behind the international consensus to fight Islamist terrorism? Seventy countries of the world are now members of the “Global Coalition against Daesh”; but how many global citizens really are behind it? And do they hold the opinion that Islamist terrorism is a real security challenge?
The corresponding author for this chapter is Arno Tausch (arno.tausch@yahoo.de).
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For an analysis of the especially dark chapter of lacking German solidarity with Israel during the finest hour of the Jewish State during the Yom Kippur War of 1973, see Hagai and Wolffsohn (2013) and Wolffsohn (2013). As the analysis of formerly secret documents now released shows, the government of the German “Peace Chancellor” Willy Brandt denied the use of German airports for US planes sending badly needed military hardware to the beleaguered Jewish State, attacked by the advancing Egyptian and Syrian armies just 28 years after the end of the Shoah.
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Tausch, A. (2019). The Solitude of the West in the Fight against Terror . In: Islamism, Arab Spring, and the Future of Democracy. Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91077-2_10
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