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Israeli authorities have long feared that the intifadeh, the Palestinian uprising in the territories, would spread to the country's 710,000 Arab citizens, who make up 14% of the population. Now they are wondering if the February murders, near the northern kibbutz of Galed, were just an opening act...
The February hackings near Galed underscored a potentially more disruptive development: the rise among Israeli Arabs of Islamic fervor, complete with a fanatic streak. The four Arabs charged with the killings were all followers of the Islamic Movement, a fundamentalist organization that is legal in Israel. Police say they were...
Leaders of the Islamic Movement, who officially eschew violence, were quick to deplore the killings. But authorities are worried that when they speak and write of the need for a spiritual Jihad, ostensibly a struggle for the soul of the individual believer, their devotees hear in that call a traditional...
Intelligence experts fear that many terrorists have been able to replace Soviet financing with money from Iran, which is said to be backing undercover extremists from Algeria to Thailand -- while simultaneously bidding for better official relations with the West. A rising fear is that Tehran may seek to capitalize on...
Egyptian, Israeli and Western intelligence sources report that Iran has already helped establish a new terrorist refuge and base of operations in the African nation of Sudan, which has been taken over by another fundamentalist Islamic regime. Tehran is known to have dispatched thousands of its Revolutionary Guards there, and...