Word: jihadism
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...Besides pressing for Israel to withdraw from all Lebanese territories (including some that Israel regards as part of Syria), Hezbollah is nominally committed to pursue and support a wider 'jihad' against Israel. But its role in liberating south Lebanon has also positioned it to claim an important share of political power in Beirut...
...Everglades. And Al Gore--plainly campaigning for Cuban-American votes--broke with Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno by siding with the exiles who want to keep Elian in the U.S. Says University of Miami sociologist Max Castro: "Try as it may, the U.S. can't escape the jihad of Cuban politics...
...Arab land by force. Hizballah leaders can barely contain their eagerness for the day when their fighters, crying "God is great!," will march into the buffer strip along the southern Lebanese border that Israel calls the Security Zone. The Lebanese postal service is issuing stamps in honor of the jihad. And though still on the State Department's list of terrorist groups, accused in the suicide bombings of U.S. diplomats and military forces in Beirut and the kidnapping of Westerners in Lebanon, Hizballah is reinventing itself as an increasingly respectable Lebanese political party. They've even relaxed their enforcement...
...speech was supposed to be a bold call for unity and understanding, not a jihad. McCain ended with a story of one of his Vietnamese captors, the "Good Samaritan" who loosened McCain's torture ropes. On Christmas, when McCain stood alone in the courtyard, the captor walked up to him and with his sandal drew a cross in the dirt. "Both prisoner and guard stood wordlessly there for a minute or two, venerating the cross, until the guard rubbed it out and walked away," said McCain, using the third person because Salter was worried that McCain would choke up otherwise...
...least one foreign power is shedding no tears over the faltering Middle East peace process. Last fall, Administration sources tell TIME, Iran called leaders of the terrorist groups HIZBALLAH, HAMAS and PALESTINIAN ISLAMIC JIHAD to Tehran and urged them to coordinate their attacks against Israel in the hope of derailing then promising peace overtures. "They were pulling together their terrorist friends to try to destroy the process," says an Administration official...