Word: jihad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...publicly displaying their faith in the process, but they know their best efforts can be undercut at any time by another incident like the bombing that killed 21 Israelis last month. After reading the Cairo summit's communique last week, a West Bank member of the radical Islamic Jihad warned, ``We are the ones who decide when to attack Israeli targets--not Arafat, not Rabin, not Hussein, not Mubarak.'' Unfortunately, that is all too true...
...Yasser Arafat failed to agree on any way to expand Palestinian authority without endangering Israeli security. After 2 1/2 hours of talks, a visibly angry Arafat lashed out at Rabin's refusal to lift a 19-day closure of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, imposed after militant Islamic Jihad bombers killed 21 Israelis last month. "If there is an Israeli wish for political separation, then we welcome it. But we will not welcome that they lock us in Gaza and the West Bank and hold the keys to the big prison." But Rabin said the PLO leader must...
...Strip; his older brothers were in the nucleus of the movement. But I myself did not choose the bombers. This was the work of our military branch. Some of the youths insist they want to lead a suicide operation--perhaps because they are influenced by the teachings of Islamic Jihad. My orders are to persuade them not to go--to test them. If they still insist, they are chosen. TIME: How can you justify the killing of civilians, like the Hamas bombing that killed more than 20 in Tel Aviv last October? SHKAKI: You have to ask our brothers...
...down on Islamic militants operating out of the semi-autonomous Gaza Strip. To date, the P.L.O. chairman has treated the Islamists gingerly for fear of igniting a Palestinian civil war. Israeli officials expressed hope that now he would get tough. Palestinian security forces have rounded up 20 alleged Islamic Jihad activists. Nabil Shaath, Arafat's planning minister, swore, ``This time, it will not be a show [detention] for two or three days...
...condemn the terrorism, impress upon his own people how much these actions hurt their cause, and take vigorous steps against the perpetrators. Officials think he is making progress, though not fast or firmly enough. President Clinton froze the U.S. assets of 12 Middle East extremist groups, including the Islamic Jihad group that claimed responsibility for Beit Lid, and its larger cousin, the Gaza-based Hamas. Washington had no illusion that this would matter much; the work of the militants does not cost a lot, and Iran, their chief bankroller, is happy to make up the shortfall. Still, the move...