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Terrorism:
Israel and the World
Part 3: Terrorism After Palestinian Statehood
 More of this Feature
• Part 1: Terrorism before Occupation
• Part 2: "Land for Terrorism"
• Part 3: Terrorism after Palestinian Statehood
Part 4: Radical Islamic Ideology Legitimizes Terrorism
• Part 5: Arafat Supports Terrorism
• Part 6: Fighting Terrorism
 
Anti-Israeli Terrorist Groups

•  Hizbullah
•  Hamas
•  Islamic Jihad
•  PFLP, PFLP-GC, PFL
•  Fatah's Tanzim
•  Fatah's Al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades
• Quranic Verses about Jihad

 Elsewhere on the Web

• Al-Qaida and al-Quran
• Arab-Israeli Conflict: Myths and Facts
• "Arafat Files"
• Declaration of Principles, Oslo 1993
• Documents showing Arafat's Funding of Terrorist Activities
• Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)
• Palestinian National Authority Map of Palestine
• Report on Palestinian Incitement to Violence
• U.S. State Department - Background on Terrorist Groups


 

Hizballah (Party of God)

This radical Shia group is strongly anti-West and anti-Israel, and it opposes Middle East peace negotiations.

Known or suspected to have been involved in numerous anti-US terrorist attacks:

  • suicide truck bombing of the US Embassy and US Marine barracks in Beirut - October 1983
  • suicide bombing of the US Embassy annex in Beirut - September 1984
  • kidnapping and detention of US and other Western hostages in Lebanon
  • bombing of Israeli Embassy in Argentina - 1992
  • bombing of the Israeli cultural center in Buenos Aires - 1994
  • Kidnapping and killing of three Israeli soldiers in the Shabaa Farms – 2000
  • Kidnapping and killing of Israeli businessman – 2000

    Hizballah receives substantial amounts of financial, training, weapons, explosives, political, diplomatic, and organizational aid from Iran and Syria. The group includes several thousand supporters and a few hundred terrrorist cells in Beirut, southern Lebanon, Europe, Africa, South America, North America, and Asia.

    More on Hizbullah

    Next page > Radical Islamic Ideology Legitimizes Terrorism > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6


  • ~ Lisa Katz

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