Word: intifadeh
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...suicide bombers. In an interview with TIME last Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal condemned suicide attacks against civilians but acknowledged that the families of the bombers have benefited from millions in Saudi aid given to the relatives of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the intifadeh. "There are 1,800 families receiving aid," he said. "How would [bombers' families] feel if all their neighbors were getting food and medicine, and they were singled out and not getting food and medicine?" Added Prince Saud: "Isn't it better to give assistance to the families of these people, rather...
Even by the standards of Palestinian refugee camps, Jenin is gruesomely special. Since the start of the Aqsa intifadeh in September 2000, the camp's activists, drawn from the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Islamic Jihad and Hamas, have orchestrated at least 28 suicide attacks on Israeli targets. An internal document of Arafat's Fatah organization, written in September last year and captured by the Israelis during a recent sweep, characterized the camp's people as "ready for self-sacrifice with all their means...It is not strange that Jenin has been termed the capital of suicide attackers...
...suicide bombers. In an interview with Time last Friday, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal condemned suicide attacks against civilians but acknowledged that the families of the bombers have benefited from millions in Saudi aid given to the relatives of Palestinians killed since the beginning of the intifadeh. "There are 1,800 families receiving aid," he said. "How would [bombers' families] feel if all their neighbors were getting food and medicine, and they were singled out and not getting food and medicine?" Added Prince Saud: "Isn't it better to give assistance to the families of these people, rather...
...State oppression. Poverty and disadvantage fueled by wholesale discrimination. Fertile recruiting grounds in the camps and ghettos. A ready weapons supply. (Gujarat lies on a major arms smuggling route from Pakistan to the Bombay underworld.) And enough past conflict for both communities to nurse historic grievances. The calls for intifadeh and jihad have started?"I am telling people to fight," says Imam Mohammed Ismail, 72, who lives at a refugee camp?and are being answered. "This is not communal violence," says Javed Saiyed, a Muslim from Ahmadabad. "This is civil war." All that is lacking is a Hamas...
...enforcement and intelligence officials say that since the beginning of the latest intifadeh, no Palestinian bomb plots have been uncovered in America. But they recognize that the ease of manufacturing a bomb makes suicide attacks a serious threat. "It's something to be concerned about," says a U.S. intelligence official. So far, there's little sign that it's in the interest of Palestinian bombers to attack Americans. While many Palestinians believe that U.S. support for Israel makes America complicit in what they see as the Jewish state's excesses, Palestinian militant leaders apparently believe that targeting Americans would hurt...