Word: jihadism
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...underscored a potentially more disruptive development: the rise among Israeli Arabs of Islamic fervor, complete with a fanatic streak. The four Arabs charged with the killings were all followers of the Islamic Movement, a fundamentalist organization that is legal in Israel. Police say they were also members of Islamic Jihad, the outlawed militant group that is Mideast-wide...
Leaders of the Islamic Movement, who officially eschew violence, were quick to deplore the killings. But authorities are worried that when they speak and write of the need for a spiritual Jihad, ostensibly a struggle for the soul of the individual believer, their devotees hear in that call a traditional summons for a holy war against non-Muslims, especially the Jews of Israel. "The killings near Galed didn't come out of a vacuum," says Elie Rekhess, an expert on Israeli Arabs at Tel Aviv University...
...region's relentless cycle of violence continued last week when the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was destroyed by a 220-lb. car bomb. The ferocious blast killed at least 28 people and injured 235. Lebanon's Islamic Jihad terrorist group took responsibility, then later denied it. In the first message, the group said it was avenging Israel's Feb. 16 assassination of the Shi'ite fundamentalist leader Sheik Abbas Musawi, his family and bodyguards. Israel, feeling all the more victimized as a result of ! the bombing, was quick to swear vengeance of its own. "Those who carried...
...country. The U.S. became a target when it moved Marines into Lebanon to support the Israeli-backed Christian government in Beirut, reinforcing Hizballah's belief that Israel's strength came from the aid and political support the Jewish state got from America. Said one of Terry Anderson's Islamic Jihad captors only two months ago: "The Israeli invasion was financed by America, which also supplied the weapons...