Terrorism in the Middle East has brought the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the attention of the world. These terrorist groups use murder, bombs, threats, and other violent acts to get their way politically. Hamas, the organization that has replaced Fatah as the representative of the Palestinians, is a leading sponsor of terrorism. The Hamas are the leading reason there is not peace in the middle east as they strongly embrace terrorism.
This group was created in 1978 and continues to expand its power today. It began as a branch of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood. This terrorist group has several goals ranging from creating a Islamic state to continuing the armed struggle against Israeli occupation of Palestine territories. Their acts of terrorism to date have included suicide bomb attacks against Israeli civilians to attacks on suspected Palestinian collaborators.
The Palestinians turned to terrorism because of the volatile surroundings palestine after first Intifada and because of how other governments had failed. Terrorism is so successful because people have the threat of bombings and attacks if they are not handled carefully and respectfully.
After the Six Day War Israel security forces were attempting to cultivate and expand islamism. In between the years 1967 and 1987 the number of mosques in Gaza went from 200 to 600. While islamism was expanding at this time so were the other smaller nationalist terrorist groups, such as the PLO, were also expanding in the streets, and in schools. Hamas was founded in 1978, during the expansion of islamism and terrorist nationalist groups, by Ahmed Yassin as a Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. The real terrorist acts from this group started happening around the 1990’s ...
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Hamas will not let the middle east sleep easy until all demands have been met. Hamas is the reason there is no peace in the middle east. They will use all means necessary to stay in power.. That includes and I not nearly limited to murder, torture, bombings, and suppression of rights which we use every day. Also training youth to fight, kill, and sacrifice their own life in name for a unholy cause and teaching them to blindly hate another group of people because of their religious beliefs. Since its creation in 1978 they have suppressed opposing forces and once elected into power they have become stronger every day. Not only do they make the idea of peace completely impossible but they stop people from living their daily lives for fear of death around every corner.
... attacks that have shocked the international community. The main targets have been Israelis and PLO officials, also westerners were targets until late 1980’s. Abu Nidal strongly resisted against peace negotiations between Arab and Israeli. This resistance was throughout the United States, PLO; moderate Arab regimes in Jordan, Egypt and Persian Gulf states. They were trained by many countries such as Iraq, Syria and Libya which helped the organization get funding and logistical support. Abul Nidal didn’t always have successful terror operations but there were always some casualties in the terror events. Abu Nidal was looking at the plans and would go the other way of the PLO and this would create a high tension between the groups and some countries. Abu Nidal wanted to eliminate the state of Israel as a Jewish state and make the establishment of a Palestinian state.
Terrorism has been around since the first century. Terrorism is the use of violent acts to frighten the people in an area as a way of trying to achieve a political goal. Though it wasn’t always in the United States. The first group of terrorists was known as the Zealots of Judea. The romans also knew them as the Sicarii or the dagger-men because sica means small dagger. They were motivated by the belief that they couldn’t stay faithful to the Jewish beliefs while still being Romans. They were founded by Hassan Al-Sabah. He was known as the mountain man because he ran his cult in the Mountain Fortress of Alamut. From 2000-2004 more than one thousand people died or were injured be the Palestine. In 9/11/2001
Terrorism could be defined as the use of violence in order to accomplish some type of political coercion, usually premeditated and against innocent people. When an act of terror occurs it affects nations near and far. The Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine is no different than any other terrorist organization that exists today. The organization that has been in existence for over 45 years still instills domestic fear in people and recognized around by governments as a serious threat.
...ntial support, especially among Palestinian youth. As long as the Brotherhood remained aggressive toward the PLO, and non-aggressive toward the Israelis, Israel continued support, even when it was advised of the potential repercussions. However this support backlashed in 1988, when the Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas and announced its final goal of destructing the State of Israel. Without the support of the Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood would never have been able to achieve as much influence as it did in the region nor have created the Hamas organization. It appears that Hamas was in part a creation of Israel that could have been prevented if the country, in its desperation, had not chosen to support an organization merely in order to weaken a bigger enemy. Unbeknownst to them at the time, Israel was actually supporting and creating its own biggest enemy.
Terrorism is used around the world to create fear and influence the public on political views (Siegel, 489). There are four views of terrorism including the psychological view, socialization view, ideological view, and the alienation view. A religious terrorist would most likely fit under the ideological view. In this view the terrorist feels the need to change a wrong opinion and believes that, because they are sacrificing themselves for something they believe so strongly in, it justifies the damage and harm done to innocent people (Siegel, 490). They use terror to create fear in anyone who opposes them and attract followers to their religion. In short, terrorism is widely used for political reasons but religion has been linked to the violence as well.
Since 1967, numerous illegal Israeli settlements have been built on Palestinian land and the occupied territory, “housing more then 400,000 Jewish settlers.” Even since 1967, there has been a lot of divergence, unrest, bereavement, war and obliteration on both sides. There was a war in 1973 and two intifadas Palestinian uprising one that began in 1987 and one that began in 2000 that brings us into the 21st century. There have been many attempts in resolving conflicts however; the conflict is a matter of whether the Palestinians should be permitted to form their own independent country and government in an area that was once theirs yet now occupied and currently the nation of Israel. The Arab- Israeli conflict is historically a fuse that ignites regional battle due to the occupation of Palestine.
In mid-November of last year amidst rising tensions in the Middle East, Israel launched a major offensive against Palestinian militants in Gaza on Wednesday, killing the military commander, Ahmed Al-Jabari of Hamas in an air strike. This strike on a car carrying the commander stemmed the beginning to what is known by the Israeli’s as operation “Pillar of Defense”. Following this “surgical” assassination, the Israeli air force struck over 20 underground rocket launch sites belonging to Hamas (governing terrorist organization in Gaza) and the Islamic Jihad. According to Palestinian sources these strikes killed an additional six Palestinians.
Discussing terrorism and motivations leading to terrorism brings up thoughts of random acts of violence. These acts are mostly considered to be methods of insane men. Most of these modern terrorists follow their own political agenda with each group trying to achieve a particular goal.
Their activities include many attacks including large-scale suicide bombings, against Israeli civilian and military targets. Hamas continues to attack innocent people around the world. . Gunning 2008. The most common means to attract followers is of course religion and the systematic brainwashing of its followers this will then lead to threats to any country who does not see or agree with the said views. This organization is broken down into different regions such as a “welfare and admin branch who recruits individuals, a military branch which coordination, a security branch which collects information and a publication branch who omits propaganda.” Levitt 2008. With all this coordination it is a versatile and dangerous group capable of the most atrocious acts. In order to keep these types of organizations from sprouting up we need to educate potential recruits and inform them of the backwards way of thinking that they may witness. If we could just stop one or even ten recruits we may have possibly stopped an
The Palestinian Liberation Organization, whilst proving to have little effectiveness in accomplishing their aims in the period of 1964-1974, had a significant and enduring effect on the events in the Middle East. Created in 1964 on the initiative of Egyptian president Nasser, the PLO would soon become one of the most influential bodies of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Born out of a desire to liberate the Palestinian homeland in an ‘armed struggle’, it was largely responsibly for the fedayeen raids that contributed to the outbreak of the 1967 war. Following the 1967 war, Palestinian nationalism grew, and a stronger sense of identity emerged. With this, the PLO under Yasser Arafat, became a powerful independent organization, that utilized terrorist activities to accomplish their objectives. However, these acts of terrorism proved to be ineffective in accomplishing the aims of the PLO, and so it turned to peace and diplomacy to achieve its goals. Accordingly, in the period of 1964-1974, the PLO was somewhat ineffective in achieving the aims of its covenant, accelerating the Palestinian cause in name only.
Terrorism helps terrorist to justify the violence they commit. This gives them collective meaning. It gives them some type of power. Terrorist come from every walk of life some with long criminal records or histories of juvenile
Terrorist groups are created when a person disagrees with the laws, or to target a specific group of people, and to gain financial stability or just to kill. These groups claim to be standing up for their own beliefs and the beliefs of their country. Some terrorists even try to overthrow their government. A terrorist acts upon a cause of belief in resolving their disagreements by taking matters into their own hands. They will impose the most unbearable harm upon others to gain attention and to get the results they want. For instance, the ISIS group is a terrorist group that has been around for many years, causing injury and death to many people. Their primary purpose is to destabilize the Syrian
An example of dissent terrorism is the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The PLO was a organization founded in 1964 at the first arab summit meeting in Cairo. It acted as an umbrella organization for many Palestinian groups. Although PLO’s main goal was liberating Palestine with armed struggle and getting rid of Zionism (the national movement for the return of the Jewish people in israel) in the Middle East, in 1967, PLO changed their primary goal focusing on destroying the State of Israel.
Just to reflect when they were exiled out of Israel they moved to different parts of the world and adapted to different cultures but Jewish gangs began to form. Al-Qaeda was formed during the 1930s by the Jewish Agency (JA). The JA had many missions but one of their main missions were to expel Palestinians from Palestine and attempt to migrate Middle Eastern Jews to Palestine to increase the Jew Population there. The JA raised two types of Jewish Terrorist groups. One group consisted of Ashkenazi which were Polish/Russian/Western Jews. They terrorized Palestinian villages forcing Palestinians to leave.
The Islamic Resistance Movement or better recognized by its Arabic acronym “Hamas” is well known for its terrorist attacks on the country of Israel. Hamas is the largest of several anti-Israel Palestinian Islamist militant groups. Hamas grew under a Muslim movement in the 1920s and continued to grow until they became registered as on official terrorist organization in 1978. They claim their main goal is the “social welfare agency that catered especially to the Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and, over time, developed a good reputation for improving the lives of Palestinians” (Jewishvirtuallibrary.org). In August of 1988 Hamas published their Islamic Covenant which made clear that they are opposed to Israel’s existence in any way. They