... argued that the beginning of the Islamists’ use of terrorbombing as a tactic against the West was the bombing of the U.S. Marinebarracks in Beirut in 1984. That bombing caused the American superpowerto ... 2,917 2,3 95 3 ,54 0 1, 254 1980 10,948 3,8 65 2,744 3 ,52 6 4,480 6 ,50 8 2,0691990 12,968 3 ,55 2 3,806 1,938 3,792 5, 701 2 ,52 22000 16, 159 4 ,59 9 5, 124 3,409 4, 059 7,481 2,9202001 15, 756 4,3 95 3, 953 3,430 ... islargely a consequence of European politics and war (of the Zionist impulseof the late nineteenth century and of the Nazis and World War II). In the setting of the internal conflict in the Arab world,...