Word: militiaization
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Originally known as the Lexington Training Band, this local militia, like others around Massachusetts, was cobbled together from residents of the community, 144 in total. Each member took this oath in order to join: “We trust in God that, should the state of our affairs require it, we shall be ready to sacrifice our estates and everything dear in life, yea, and life itself, in support of the common cause.” Today, rather than simply joining the band, applicants must be sponsored by members to gain admission. Now membership is capped at 77, to remain...
...Minute Men’s mission is “to educate the public and its membership by recreating, in as historically accurate a manner as possible, the uniform and history of this militia company, and to portray the life and times of its soldiers and civilians,” a feat they accomplish through reenactments and school demonstrations. The group also serves to memorialize the original Minute Men, teaching “so future generations will understand it was more than a mere battle. It was more than a military confrontation,” according to the group?...
...against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank--and the Palestinian leadership's continued sanctioning of suicide attacks against innocent Israelis--has led some to wonder whether even statehood can bring a lasting peace in a place where hatred runs so deep. A Palestinian gunman from Arafat's Fatah Tanzim militia who escaped the Jenin camp tells TIME that "we are very grateful to Sharon because he made every Palestinian child, every Palestinian woman and every Palestinian man hate the Jews and hate Israel...
...worked before. The hijackings of the 1970s kept the Palestinian cause alive in a way that Kurds and Basques can only envy. The first intifadeh, though far less brutal than this one, brought the Palestinians the Oslo peace talks. And, most relevant to Arafat today, Lebanon's Hizballah militia compelled Israel to withdraw unconditionally from south Lebanon two years ago--just before the fateful Camp David talks--by bloodying Israeli troops in the field and Israeli civilians along the border. What Hizballah got, Arafat wants too. He can't fight a conventional war with Israel because he has no real...
...leaders and popular agitation heat up the climate, it might become impossible to deny passage to Iraqi forces in part because they might bring with them the chemical or even biological weapons that evoke the special enthusiasm of Hamas and other fundamentalists. Finally, there is the Hizballah militia in southern Lebanon, already deployed close to Israel's northern frontier with hundreds of bombardment rockets ready to strike as far away as the port city of Haifa...