Word: jihadism
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...claims to represent have long since turned against violence. Over in Spain, the militant Basque separatists of the ETA present the same problem. NATO plans to disarm Albanian rebels in Macedonia appear somewhat optimistic, despite last week's political peace agreement. And the Islamists of Hamas and Islamic Jihad appear to have no shortage of young Palestinians willing to blow themselves up in order to make a bloody political point...
...poverty and despair of daily life in the West Bank and Gaza certainly makes young Palestinian men more receptive to the monstrous promises made by Hamas and Islamic Jihad that suicide bombers earn a their way into a kind of heavenly VIP lounge, complete with the bizarre guarantees of salvation for 70 of their relatives and the right to have their way with 70 virgins in paradise. And yet the fundamentalist movements of Afghanistan and Egypt are a reminder that the most extreme distortions of Islam tend to gestate in situations of the most extreme social and economic conditions...
These are desperate times in Israel. Even though Israeli security officials in Jerusalem are on maximum alert - and have foiled a number of suicide bombing attempts in the past week - one terrorist, sent by Islamic Jihad, slipped through. And he managed to kill 17 Israelis and wound 70 more in a packed pizzeria. As news of the latest outrage broke, Palestinian security officials began hurriedly evacuating their premises, knowing that a fearsome Israeli retaliation is all but inevitable. The last vestiges of the cease-fire brokered by CIA chief George Tenet will probably have been laid to rest by dawn...
...simply as a platform for war against Israel. Indeed, the only Arab leader to have made any gains from the intifada has been Saddam Hussein, who has styled himself the savior of the Palestinians, not least through substantial financial contributions to families of sons "martyred" in the intifada. Islamic Jihad, the Palestinian group who claimed responsibility for Thursday's carnage in Jerusalem, actually termed the blast a "gift" to Saddam. Under those circumstances, unilateral separation without agreements that lock the Palestinian state into various forms of coexistence with Israel could be extremely dangerous...
...process and turning the PLO from a liberation movement into a government. Without the promise of achieving a viable state through negotiation, he has very little to offer Palestinians in exchange for cooperating with the Israelis. And it's that awareness that helps explain his skittish shuttling between declaring jihad and declaring cease-fires. The extent of Palestinian hostility to cease-fire efforts suggests that Arafat may no longer be able to simply round up Hamas and Islamic Jihad militants without provoking a backlash that could ultimately destroy his own base. Thus Arafat's dilemma: Unless he can revive...