Word: jihadization
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...over the course of a six-hour onslaught, but to leave Arafat unscathed, just as they had in a similar raid starting in late March. This new attack was payback for a bombing the day before that killed 17 Israelis. But the bombing had been claimed by Islamic Jihad, a radical Palestinian group that does not answer to Arafat and, moreover, opposes him. So why did the Israelis level their retaliation...
...still smarting decades after the 1971 war in which India successfully broke Bangladesh--then East Pakistan--away from West Pakistan, Kashmir remains a call to arms, a national obsession and the one topic on which there is near unanimity. The cause is seen by some in Pakistan as a jihad, a holy war; it is viewed with clarity and single-mindedness of purpose. The identity of Pakistan, whose rulers, it can be argued, have failed their people over the years--literacy is only around 40%, and infant-mortality rates are among the world's highest--is now tied dangerously...
...policemen who are dispersing the crowd, they grumble about the President. "He cannot survive," says Hafiz Mazhar Liblani, "and if he sells out Kashmir, he will pay the price." Liblani has trained as a militant in a Pakistani-run camp and vows that he is ready to carry the jihad to Kashmir when necessary. That issue is a snarling point for Indians who regularly accuse Pakistan of training, equipping and inserting terrorists into Kashmir. Although Musharraf has in the past denied that Pakistan sponsors militants, it has in fact helped establish training camps for Kashmiri insurrectionists and facilitated their crossing...
...transmuting into the second. Arguably, Israel has allowed that evolution to occur. In the 1970s, the Palestine Liberation Organization, murderous though it was, was rigorously secular and advanced a conventional agenda for national liberation. For years Israel ignored it. The newer Palestinian terrorist groups, such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, see their cause in much more religious, millenarian terms; from Israel's standpoint, dealing with them is far more difficult...
...effective deterrent to terror attacks, Arafat will be left alone to face the wrath of Ariel Sharon. But the Palestinian leader insists that this will be possible only when the Israelis withdraw from PA territory. The PA roundly condmened the Megiddo attack, and ordered a roundup of Islamic Jihad militants. The Bush administration condemned the attack and said it underscored the urgency of reforming the PA security forces. But neither the roundup announced by the PA nor the Bush administration's emphasis on rebuilding PA security structures are likely to impress the Israeli leadership...