Word: jihadism
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...sources in both organizations tell TIME, Hezbollah's backers in the Iranian government have called them together to patch up their dispute and focus them on the jihad against the Jewish state. The Iranians, who have kept Hamas at arm's length until now, hope that by bringing the two together again, they can pool their operations and exert even more deadly pressure on Israel. If the Iranians get their way, it will be a dark day both for Israelis - who will face increasingly professional terrorist attacks - and for Palestinians already suffering under a heavy-handed Israeli backlash. Competition between...
...qualms about engaging in that “straight talk” he loves so well. Is it because he himself was implicated in the Keating Five scandal of the ’80s? As the standard newspaper accounts go, his involvement in that scandal led him to his jihad against the special interests...
...danger of being eclipsed on the ground by more radical forces that have grown at Arafat's expense amid the rage and despair in the embattled Palestinian territories. The attacks that have prompted the heavy Israeli response of the past week were authored by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and a group identifying itself as a Palestinian chapter of the Lebanese Islamist guerrilla movement Hezbollah. None of them have any interest in agreements reached between Arafat and the Israelis, and the Palestinian leader may be reluctant to take them on unless he's getting something in return. Then again, by remaining politically...
...gunships blasted Palestinian Authority targets in Gaza and Ramallah after a Hamas suicide bomber had earlier in the day killed himself and two Israeli teenagers on the border between Israel and the West Bank. The latest attacks followed two bomb blasts in Jerusalem the previous day for which Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility, and ongoing clashes throughout the West Bank. The Israeli attacks came as no surprise - Israel had promised a robust military retaliation, but had waited for the conclusion of the Arab League summit (which wrapped up Wednesday in Jordan) to minimize the diplomatic fallout...
...directly blamed Yasser Arafat for the latest Palestinian attacks. The substance of that complaint, really, is that Arafat's Palestinian Authority is giving free rein to Islamist terror groups operating in areas under its control. That's hardly surprising. The incentive for Arafat to restrain Hamas and Islamic Jihad had been the peace process itself, and the possibility it created that dialogue could result in the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza being replaced with a Palestinian state. That process collapsed last year at Camp David, and Sharon has refused to countenance new negotiations within the Oslo framework...