Word: jihadism
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...religious fanaticism the issue--for the fanatic--is not grievance but ascendancy. What must be decided is not who is right and wrong--one can never appease the grievances of the religious fanatic--but whose God is greater. After Afghanistan there can be no doubt. In the land of jihad, the fall of the Taliban and the flight of al-Qaeda are testimony to the god that failed...
...proper "in response to many wise people who want to avoid giving our occupiers a chance to split our unity." And the reason for their concern was underlined Friday in Gaza's Jabaliya refugee camp, where five Palestinians died and at least 70 were injured when Hamas and Islamic Jihad gunmen attacked a Palestinian Authority police post. Clashes between the PA and its Palestinian opponents have grown increasingly violent over the past week, and the Hamas announcement appears to have been an attempt to remain on the right side of Palestinian public opinion by stepping back from a Palestinian civil...
...strategic logjam. Israel and the U.S. are keeping up the pressure to crack down on the organization, and Hamas is currently reported to be debating Arafat's demand that it hand over one of its key military leaders for arrest in line with an Israeli demand. The smaller Islamic Jihad organization made a similar statement later on Friday, after earlier vowing to continue suicide attacks inside Israel. The 'truce' call may presage a split within both organizations - Palestinian analysts suspect a significant portion of their suicide squadrons may be tempted to break with their leaders rather than accept Arafat...
...Particularly when it's a relative certainty that precisely when any move towards reviving dialogue gathers momentum, Islamic Jihad or Hamas rebels will do their best to veto such dialogue with another well-timed suicide bombing...
...have raised a skeptical eyebrow at the lofty pretensions of bin Laden's rhetorical tilting at the U.S. suddenly treated him with new respect. It was as if the scale of the Clinton administration's tactically pointless retaliation had confirmed bin Laden's claims to be leading a global jihad against the Americans...