Word: jihadism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...later. A huge explosion blew a hole in a bakery, sending body parts and bread showering onto the pavement outside. Three Israelis were killed and two others wounded by the blast. Responsibility for the terror attack was immediately claimed by three different Palestinian militant groups, one of them - Islamic Jihad - identifying the bomber as Mohammed Siksik, 21, from Gaza...
...from his desiring to re-establish a base in Lebanon, the fighting serves Arafat's purposes by obscuring the differences between his branch of the P.L.O. and the Palestinian groups based in Syria. Says Arafat's deputy Khalil Wazir, who is better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Jihad: "All fighters from all factions are fighting in the same trench for survival." In recent weeks Abu Jihad has met with rival Palestinian Leader George Habash in Moscow, Prague and Algiers in an effort to achieve a reconciliation among the Palestinian groups. The Soviet Union has strongly backed the idea...
...Never before in U.S. history had Jewish leaders shown such bold hostility toward Evangelical Christians, the largest Protestant community in America and, by most measures, the most philo-Semitic and pro-Israel. In normal times, this would be paradoxical. In an age of jihad it was dangerously perverse...
...wartime. While American Jewish leaders worry about the mythological Armageddon, the Iranians are building a bomb to drop on the actual, physical Armageddon, a locale an hour and a half from Tel Aviv. The Palestinians have elected a government committed to Israel's destruction. Al-Qaeda has dubbed its jihad a, "holy war against Crusaders and Jews...
...would American Jews feel so secure. They - and not just Israelis - are primary targets of every radical Islamic movement. To paraphrase Trotsky, the Jews of America may not be interested in the jihad, but the jihad is interested in them. Their security depends on being wrapped in a larger American polity which very much includes 60 or 70 million conservative Evangelicals...