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.
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.
... 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 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.
Over the past century, terrorism has advanced from random killings to enormous plans for terrorist groups. To understand terrorism, you must first define it. Terrorism as we all know it is hard to define and understand, and has many different definitions as it is used widely. The word "terrorism" stems from the word "terror", which means to instill fear in. People become terrorists when they take the actions towards instilling fear and terror upon people to prove a certain point or agenda.
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.
Israel successfully fought off the pan-Arab army while other Israeli combatants terrorized and depopulated the countryside. Ilan Pappe termed the depopulation of Palestinians as “ethnic cleansing” but can this phrase be properly used when discussing the events of 1947-1948? To answer this question one must determine if there is a well-established definition of the phrase ‘ethnic cleansing’ and also establish that this was the intent of the Zionists, both initially and subsequently. This can be determined by examining Zionist policy and action previous to the U.N partition plan and after, which will demonstrate that the term is appropriately applied to the situation by Pappe.
As aforementioned, the PLO’s responses to the events of the Middle East were rather unsuccessful in achieving the organization’s aims in the period 1964-1974. Although playing a central role in the region, the PLO did little to alter the course of the conflict, and failed to achieve the goals of its covenant. Its formation in 1964 was a significant step in the Palestinian imitative, and its participation in fedayeen raids saw it become heavily involved in the 1967 war. The later terrorist activities of the PLO, whilst giving international recognition to their cause, did little to ignite change. The adoption of a new diplomatic strategy saw the PLO make slight advancements for the Palestinian people. However generally, the PLO’s efforts in the period of 1964-1974, furthered the Palestinian cause in name only.
The funds generated by the organization has also been funded towards political campaigns. It’s unclear how effective the political donations have become, but I’m sure we have and will see some of the ramification that have come from the political influence. Islamic extremism has seem to become the new communist threat that the United States feared in the 50s through the 80s. The question will soon become does the United States have the resolve and the national treasure to fight the influence that terrorist organizations like Hezbollah has in countries around the
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.