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Marlowe notes that Algeria has settled into a long and exceedingly violent war in which as many 1,000 people are killed weekly in a bloody contest between the government and the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), a savage offshoot of the FIS. The violence has spilled over into France, where the GIA is believed responsible for a series of bombings this summer and whose dramatic hijacking of an Air France flight last December fanned fears that the war could destabilize all of North Africa...
While Kahane was alive, Kach was the natural home for Jewish extremists. But after his 1990 assassination in New York City, the group splintered badly. Kahane's son Benyamin formed an offshoot, Kahane Chai (Kahane Lives), and took many of the original Kach activists with him to settlements in the West Bank, where he preaches--less charismatically--the same message his father did. While the group frequently harasses Palestinians and is suspected of having murdered several, its core activity is inciting Israeli Jews, touching off noisy demonstrations that often make the TV news...
Eyal, another Kach offshoot, to which Amir has been linked, is a tiny organization based at Tel Aviv's Bar Ilan University. Its activities tend toward threats and harassment rather than outright violence. But its members, like most of the 15,000 or so extremists in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, tend to believe that any act, including murder, is justified if it thwarts the peace process. Says University of Pennsylvania political scientist Ian Lustick, an expert on Jewish fundamentalism: "It's the equivalent of the right-wing milieu that led to the Oklahoma City bombing." That event shook...
...result, the man in the street began to believe the military operations were responsible for his sufferings," says Ghazi Hamad, the editor of the Hamas newspaper al-Watan, which Arafat shut down three weeks ago. Public support is critically important to Hamas. Formed in 1988 as an offshoot of the pan-Arab Muslim Brotherhood, it is committed to a holy war to liberate not only the Gaza Strip and West Bank but also Israel from Jewish control. The group runs a large network of social institutions: mosques, clinics, schools and charities. In recent years, it had been estimated to command...
...gone the politics-as-usual route," rails Nicholas Sabatine, chairman of the Patriot Party, an infant offshoot of Perot's 1992 campaign organization. "He is angering a lot of his people." Perot admits he is abandoning a grand scheme popular with many voters. "That everyone is for a third alternative is obvious," he says. "But is it the best thing to do? If you start a third party and do everything perfectly, you have started down a path that will probably take 10 years [to capture] the White House, the House and the Senate. Can't make it overnight...