Word: jihadism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Among Gaza's many militant groups, the boys of Islamic Jihad have a different swagger. They walk with death in their shadows, and they move with the stiff pretense of being unafraid of it. Of course, they don't call it death but "martyrdom," and it awaits them in the form of an Israeli missile when these die-hard teenagers creep out into the orange groves and sand dunes to launch rockets at Israel...
...militants know that after they fire off their homemade rockets, they have only a few seconds to sprint away before a guided Israeli missile comes flaming in. Islamic Jihad admits to losing over 70 men this way last year. And yet they persist. In Gaza, there is no shortage of young men who are mesmerized by the idea of a warrior's death...
...Islamic Jihad's activities are now under intense scrutiny, not only by the Israelis but also by fellow militants Hamas, who assumed power in the Gaza Strip after a short but brutal fight with Fatah, a movement linked to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
...human rights activist described as the "organized, orchestrated chaos" that reigned during the power struggle between Fatah and Hamas. And to gain a breather, Hamas leaders say they are willing to observe a truce with Israel. But Hamas knows that the cease-fire will never succeed unless Islamic Jihad also signs...
...element of sleight of hand. He moves so quickly, it's often hard to notice that there's not much nutrition being offered and much that is being avoided. He never mentions Iraq in his stump speech. He talks - well, offers one sentence - about the challenge of "global Islamic jihad." And because he doesn't dwell on it, his audiences don't. On a late-May New Hampshire swing, he cruised through two performances before the word Iraq perforated his balloon. And then it was a high school student, who simply asked, "What would you do about Iraq...