POLS 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Mandatory Palestine, Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine, Al-Qaeda
12 Apr 2020
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Terrorism: deliberate creation and exploitation of fear through violence or the threat of it in pursuit of political change by non-state actors: types: International: based in one country, but attacking elsewhere. Transnational: based nowhere, attacking everywhere: limits of this definition. Moral elements of judging other people"s behavior (1) terrorism is really a tactic, not a type of person. One person"s terrorist is another person"s freedom fighter: the use of fear through violence for political change can be a good or bad thing depending on how you look at it. Israeli militants fighting in british palestine for a jewish state. First wave of terrorism in the 1800s consisted of anarchist movements, second wave was revolutionary movements in the 1910s and the third wave was anti american, marxist and attacked across the world. Internationalization came about because of palestinian activism post 1967. Stepped up political and terrorist activities; groups: (1) plo (2) pflp (3) abu nadal.
