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  Learn more about Terrorism in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Terrorism (from French (18th century): terrorisme under the Terror) is the term commonly used to refer to the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence, against the civilian population, usually for the purpose of obtaining political or religious goals.
Terrorism is exceedingly difficult for governments to control or prevent, especially when some of its practitioners are willing to risk their lives or (in some cases) even to embrace certain death.
State terrorism is backed by state-funded propaganda, ostensibly for "National Security" reasons; the state may argue that the measures are short-term, that the government is in state of war against guerrilla or terrorist groups (sometimes, groups loyal to a previous, deposed government), and that they are working to restore the "Constitution" and "democracy".
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /t/te/terrorism.html   (4361 words)

  
 State terrorism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Unfair trials, torture, terror bombing, and extrajudicial execution are said to be common practices of state terror, often used to terrorize domestic populations by sovereign or proxy regimes.
Iran under the Shah (1953-79) was a notorious employer of state terrorism, most notably through its covert intelligence agency SAVAK, founded in 1957 with the aid of the CIA, which arbitrarily detained and tortured suspected dissidents as a matter of course with the aim of squelching opposition to the Shah's autocratic rule.
 Israeli terror is worse by Roee Nahmias for The Arab-Israeli 29 July 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Israeli_terrorism   (4354 words)

  
 Israeli Terrorism Frightens USA - PRAVDA.Ru
The terrorism issue is not at all new in the Middle East, especially in Israel and Palestine, where terrorist acts have been following one after another for decades.
The Israeli terrorism is organized rather weakly, it is represented by only two organizations.
It is explained both with the successful work conducted by the Israeli special services and with the fact that the majority of population do not accept the ideas of the radical groups.
english.pravda.ru /world/20/91/366/11065_conflict.html   (777 words)

  
 ISRAELI TERROR
Because terrorism today is no longer the mad bomber, the anarchist who throws in an explosive device into a crowd to make a point.
Terrorism is going to move from the present situation to non-conventional terrorism, to nuclear terrorism.
Terrorism means putting the crosshairs of the sniper's rifle on a civilian deliberately.
www.informationclearinghouse.info /article1818.htm   (1019 words)

  
 Israeli Terrorism... | GuyanaJournal
Terrorism is basically about a sub-national group engaging or attacking an institutionalized government, sections of the population or property by using non-traditional methods of warfare in pursuit of a pre-determined political, religious or military objective.
It will show that it was Israeli terrorism that provided both method and motive to the Islamic terrorist, and that the attack on America by Islamic terrorists in the late summer of 2001 was a result of and response to Israeli terrorism against the Palestinians.
Israeli terrorism,* launched mainly by a Jewish terrorist organization, the Igrun, was first directed at the Arabs, but expanded to include the British in1939 following the promulgation of a British White paper severely restricting Jewish immigration into Palestine.
www.guyanajournal.com /trorism.html   (7324 words)

  
 Viewpoint -- Palestinian Terrorism Justifies Israeli Response
Far from being “the strong,” Israeli children are so often the target of Palestinian terrorist bombing that many feel simply numb, rather than outraged, at the report of more Palestinian terrorist bombing.
The rest of us who choose not to join the terrorist camp ought to be thankful that Israeli soldiers are doing their part to root out the terrorist infrastructure that might supply the next suicide bomber to target America.
Overcoming great odds, the Israelis held off the invading armies, and because the Arab states would not brook peace with a state whose existence they deemed “a catastrophe,” the points at which Israel managed to hold off the invading armies became Israel’s much-ballyhooed pre-1967 borders.
www.thehoya.com /viewpoint/042602/view5.cfm   (643 words)

  
 Israel's Terrorism on Palestinian Soil   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
We should be outraged that Israelis use American high explosives to commit these crimes - killing women and children has only one intent, and that's to commit the crime of genocide.
Israeli authorities said that on Dec. 30th, 1989 eighteen year old Fadi Khalil menaced soldiers with an axe.
As he ran away an Israeli border policeman dropped to one knee, took careful aim, and shot him in the head.
www.compuserb.com /israel   (618 words)

  
 Israeli Terrorism
Zionists believe that terror acts are the only and the ideal means to accomplish their colonialist and expansionist targets to get at the innocents and opponents in the world.
In 1982, the Israeli occupation Army stormed Lebanon again and reached the capital, Beirut, and retreated under heavy pressure from the resistance as to expand the size of the occupied Southern Strip of South Lebanon.
The recent of which is the Israeli live bullets fired at Palestinian demonstrators, hungry for their long-awaited for freedom, inside the occupied Arab territories on the 50 anniversary of the usurpation of Palestine by the Israelis, where tens of Palestinians were killed or wounded.
www.geocities.com /ahlulbayt14/fact5.html   (2432 words)

  
 Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism
Israeli terror and collective punishment used against the Palestinians have traumatized an entire population.
Palestinian acts of terrorism pale in contrast to Israel’s terrorism which have affected almost every Palestinian family through deaths, long-term injuries, beatings, deprivation of work, travel restrictions, daily humiliations.
The rest of the Palestinians living under direct Israeli military control are essentially imprisoned in their own land, where even traveling from one village to another is restricted by Israeli forces, while every day more and more land of the Palestinians are being grabbed by Israel.
www.ektaonline.org /~quitpale/about   (1064 words)

  
 Media bias whitewashes Israeli terrorism (by Ray Hanania) - Media Monitors Network
What is not told until nearly a year later is that Palestinian President Yasir Arafat demanded that the Israeli proposal also include compassion for the millions of Palestinian civilians who were forced out of their homes and lands in 1948 and again in 1967.
The presence of Israeli soldiers in Arab areas is the primary cause of the current violence and the provocation that pushes many frustrated and desperate Palestinian civilians to acts of violence of their own.
Israeli settlers are among the worst fanatics in the world, even though the media seems consumed only with the so-called "Islamic fanatic." These Israeli settlers have been engaged in a hate war against the Palestinians with the goal of killing Arabs and stealing their lands.
www.mediamonitors.net /hanania21.html   (804 words)

  
 Pravda.RU David Duke: How Israeli terrorism and American treason caused the September 11 Attacks
Israeli tanks, helicopters and even jet fighters are used to drop bombs or fire missiles into the heart of Palestinian neighborhoods and refugee camps packed with women and children.
Israeli jets buzzed the USS Liberty long before the attack, flying so close that the members of the Liberty crew could even see their hand waves as they passed.
Upon hearing the number of 130 Israeli dead, it seemed suspiciously low to me. If 4000 Israelis were at the WTC and the WTC death toll was about 4500 (about 10 percent of the 45,000 people normally in the buildings at that time), the Israeli toll should have statistically been around 400 and not 130.
english.pravda.ru /columnists/2002/04/18/27774.html   (11292 words)

  
 Al-Awda/PRRC - Israeli terrorism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The day before the assassination Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett publicly accused Bernadotte of "bias against the state of Israel and in favor of the Arab states." Stephen Green points to evidence that the Israeli government was itself directly involved in the killing.
In her chapter entitled "Sacred Terrorism" Rokach details an incident from March 1954 in the course of which attackers killed ten passengers on a bus from Eilat to Beersheva at the Ma'aleh Ha'akrabim crossroads.
Although Sharett managed to block the Israeli military from forceful retaliation for the bus massacre, a pretext was soon found to launch a massive attack on the village of Nahalin, near Bethlehem, killing dozens of civilians, and "completely destroying" another Palestinian village in the West Bank.
www.al-awda.org /israeliterrorism   (6342 words)

  
 Israel's War For Terrorism
They have nothing to do with terrorism: they are aimed at entrenching the Israeli occupation, making it irreversible and reducing the Palestinians to ashes.
But every terror attack enables Israel to implement the next steps in its premeditated plans, and to sell it to the world as "self-defence", "retaliation", "prevention" etc. No wonder, then, that none of these plans actually stops terrorism: they are not meant to.
Understandably terrified, most Israelis indeed back the most futile, absurd and fatuous — not to say immoral — operations of their government, misled to believe that its goal is securing their lives rather than perpetuating a murderous occupation that most Israelis do not want.
www.antiwar.com /hacohen/h073102.html   (1434 words)

  
 Israeli State Terrorism in Context
As recently as July 23, an Israeli F-16 fighter jet, on direct orders of the Israeli government, dropped a one-ton laser-guided bomb into Al Daraj, a densely packed neighborhood, in a heavily populated warren of apartments in the Gaza ghetto, killing at least 14 Palestinians, including nine children.
With the Israeli license to kill "Amalek" in full effect, both the US government, the United Nations and the corrupt, American-proxy Arab states, are unwilling to lift a finger to rescue the Palestinian nation from genocide.
The Israeli army claimed that their gunfire was not aimed at the hospital but at mortar fire from nearby the hospital.
www.revisionisthistory.org /palestine55.html   (1335 words)

  
 Americans Strongly Support Israeli Anti-Terrorism Strategy
"It's clear from this survey that the overwhelming majority of Americans share the Israeli view that terrorism is never justified and should be combated aggressively," said pollster Frank Luntz, of the Luntz Research Companies, a firm that polls for Republicans.
In addition, 70% of Americans believe Israelis are "justified" in "attempting to kill" an individual when they have proof that individual had "carried out a terrorist act that killed Israelis and plans to strike again." Only 18% said that is not justified.
The poll also found that most Americans believe that terrorism is on the rise, and that Israelis are the most frequent victims.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/08-24-2001/0001560640&EDATE=   (291 words)

  
 ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Israeli commentator Akiva Eldar recently observed frankly in a Ha'aretz column that Perle, Feith, and their fellow strategists 'are walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments and Israeli interests.' The suggestion of dual loyalties is not a verboten subject in the Israeli press, as it is in the United States.
Israeli foreign policy expert Yehoshafat Harkabi critiqued the war/expulsion scenario - 'Israeli intentions to impose a Pax Israelica on the Middle East, to dominate the Arab countries and treat them harshly' - in his very significant work, Israel's Fateful Hour, published in 1988.
Harkabi hoped that 'the failed Israeli attempt to impose a new order in the weakest Arab state - Lebanon - will disabuse people of similar ambitions in other territories.'8 Left unconsidered by Harkabi was the possibility that the United States would act as Israel's proxy to achieve this goal.
groups.msn.com /ISRAELISTATETERRORISM/yourwebpage7.msnw   (1878 words)

  
 israelinsider: diplomacy: Israeli drone films Palestinians faking funeral in Jenin
The film was screened to foreign reporters and later shown on Israeli television, causing considerable amusement among the TV commentators and journalists, since the "corpse" kept tumbling out of the blanket.
Israeli intelligence sources reported that Palestinians have been exhuming corpses from nearby cemeteries and burying them in a mass grave of those who fought the Israelis in Jenin.
IDF senior officials reported earlier this week on Israeli television that animal carcasses were also hauled to the refugee camp to create the "stench of death."
www.israelinsider.com /channels/diplomacy/articles/dip_0204.htm   (377 words)

  
 CNN.com - Muslim summit slams Israeli 'terrorism' - April 3, 2002
OIC delegates said they did not define Palestinian actions because they felt it was important to differentiate between the legitimate political struggle of Palestinians, which Muslim nations wholeheartedly support, and terror acts committed by Palestinian bombers.
Albar insisted the organization succeeded in its mission of defining terrorism during the three-day meeting.
The meeting -- originally called to define terrorism and prevent "Muslim bashing" in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks -- was in danger of being overrun by the developing conflict in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians.
archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/asiapcf/southeast/04/03/ioc.summit   (340 words)

  
 Israel State Terrorism
Under the Geneva Conventions (in particularly The 4th Convention) the "occupying power" (Israel) is required in strict and unambiguous terms to protect the human rights, including the lives, welfare, and property of the Palestinian people.
Were it not for US dollars and weapons, and the use of its Security Council veto to block the will of the international community to enforce the Geneva Conventions, Israel's state terrorism, the end game of which is the extermination, displacement, and subjugation of the Palestinian people, could not take continue.
Demonstration at Israeli checkpoint protesting IDF assaults on the refugee camps in the Occupied Territories
www.israel-state-terrorism.org   (358 words)

  
 Israeli terrorism leaves 8 Lebanese dead, electric stations blown
The Lebanese resistance also attacked twice the Israeli towns in the Galilee and the attacks, as noted by the Israeli military spokesman, resulted in wounding one soldier and four Israeli citizens and setting off fires in various areas of Kiryat Shemona.
Thursday, Israeli warplanes raided the al-Jeyah electricity power station to the south of Beirut, against al-Damour and al-Na'emah bridge as well as the areas of al-Khawam and Ras al-Ein near Baalbeck.
On Thursday night, the Lebanese president stressed that the Israeli raids were a flagrant occupation against Lebanon and constituted a flagrant violation of the April Understanding agreement provisions.
www.arabicnews.com /ansub/Daily/Day/990625/1999062501.html   (602 words)

  
 News Media Ignore Israeli Terrorism
The net result is that Israeli lives and deaths become valued while Palestinian lives and deaths are diminished or erased from our conscience.
State-sponsored terror is an organic part of colonization of native lands.
There are individual acts of Palestinian terrorism, but the news media do not report on the more systematic Israeli terrorism or the reasons for all this violence.
www.ccmep.org /2004_articles/palestine/020204_news_media.htm   (724 words)

  
 ISRAELI STATE TERRORISM
The FBI is in talking to a Pentagon official suspected of passing secrets to Israel and is seeking to gain his co-operation in their espionage investigation..
It revives the old charge that Israel is not an ally but a treacherous country, and the old saw that American Jews have a "divided loyalty" problem in their preference for Israeli over American interests...
First and foremost, terror is for us a part of the political war appropriate for the circumstances of today...”
groups.msn.com /ISRAELISTATETERRORISM   (227 words)

  
 Israeli State Terrorism: Matrix of Terror
All of these give an immediate feel to the in physical terms to the “matrix of terror” which has increasingly grown over the 35 years of illegal occupation, and at an accelerating rate in recent years to put a stranglehold of terror, control, exploitation, and liquidation or ethnic cleansing on the Palestinian people.
Water is diverted, homes, oftentimes with people in them are bulldozed, and medical services both routine and emergency denied leaving people to die slow painful deaths while their families watch in torment and Israeli soldiers stand by.
The fraud of Camp David, which Israeli spokespersons and their US lobbyist allies continue, with straight faces, to call “Barak’s generous offer” on American TV and in the print media, was the semantic device of calling the Palestinian areas within the matrix of terror a “Palestinian state”; (the 94% solution).
www.israel-state-terrorism.org /matrixofterror.html   (471 words)

  
 Israeli Terrorism Frightens USA - PRAVDA.Ru
It goes without saying that Israelis do not agree upon that.
The Israeli terrorism is organized rather weakly, it is represented with only two organizations, which virtually make one organization.
In addition, practically all Israelis who wish to struggle with Palestinians, have an opportunity to do it absolutely legally in the Israeli army.
www.mafhoum.com /press6/164T45.htm   (625 words)

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