Word: jihadism
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...against terrorism - as in any other war - putting the enemy on trial is always an afterthought. That's why the conviction in New York of four footsoldiers of Osama bin Laden's jihad to drive the United States out of the Middle East will be recorded as, at best, a footnote in the chronicle of a long and bloody war in which the real measure of U.S. success is tragedies averted rather than perpetrators apprehended. After all, the man named in the indictment as the architect of the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania wasn't even...
...either - over whether leaving Lebanon to save Israeli lives helped put Israel into its current predicament in the West Bank and Gaza. But for the Palestinian militants, there is no debate. The Hizballah strategy is being pursued by a range of Palestinian militant groups, ranging from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to elements of Arafat's own Fatah organization and even cells created by Hizballah itself, who see firing on Israeli soldiers and settlers with assault rifles and mortars, setting off remote-controlled roadside bombs and sending suicide bombers into Israel itself as the tactics of attrition they believe will eventually...
...Arafat may have some control over the militants in his own Fatah organization, but he is not capable of restricting the Islamist groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Today the Israelis defused 20 powerful roadside bombs in Gaza, and there was some mortar shelling. And if he goes after the Islamists, he'd be in big trouble among his own people and throughout the Arab world. On the ground, the radical line is winning these days...
...holds Yasser Arafat's administration responsible for attacks such as the one in Netanya by failing to curb terrorist activity in areas under its control. The collapse of the peace process and the rising tide of violence has seen Arafat's security forces unwilling to act against Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other militant groups they had previously policed - indeed, the rank and file of Arafat's own Fatah organization tends to see the Islamists as brothers in arms, and has been coordinating activities on the ground in Gaza with those groups. And while suicide bombings inside Israel are the signature...
...reduce violence. Arafat's political authority in the West Bank and Gaza is clearly not what it was even a year ago, when no one dared publicly question his orders - recently, his calls to halt mortar attacks and to disband local committees coordinating armed activities between Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and his own Fatah movement have not only been ignored, they've been openly challenged. He may be reluctant to risk further diminishing his power by trying to rein in Palestinian militants in the absence of any tangible gains from the sacrifices ordinary Palestinians have been forced to make...