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The Origins of Middle Eastern Terrorism

n Jew and journalist Theodor Herzl published The Jewish State. That text deconstructed European anti-Semitism and articulated the Zionist answer, constructing a state in what was then Ottoman Palestine. In 1897, Herzl organized the World Zionist Organization, and over the course of the next 20 years various groups organized around strands of Zionist political thought (unsuccessfully) sought formal international charter from Turkey, Germany, Britain (Zionism, 1993).

Enter World War I. In 1917, when Turkish Palestine became British Palestine owing to the fortunes of war, there came the Balfour Declaration, the name given to a statement by British Foreign Secretary Arthur J. Balfour in a letter to a British Zionist leader that approved in principle of the physical location in Palestine of a "national home for the Jewish people" (Ben-Gurion, 1969). No British or European resources were committed to that principle because Balfour also articulated concern that the rights of non-Jews would not be penalized. Further, the very notion that geopolitical maps might be redrawn because of a Jewish state fostered tensions between Jewish newcomers to Palestine and Arabs who already lived there. Gradual institutionalization of the concept of a Jewish Palestine displaced the previous presumption by Palestinian Arabs that Jews could be permitted to settle in Arab/Syrian Palestine (White, p. 99). Accordingly, anti-Jewish rioting and revolts by Arabs occurred periodically from the 1920s to 1948, when "Mandate Palestine" was under British control.

After World War II, many European Jews who survived the Holocaust migrated to Israel, where some engaged in terrorist tactics against the Mandate by using tactics of the IRA under Michael Collins. After 1948, when Israel was established as a state, Arab countries declared war that persisted with varying degrees of violence 1948-1967. However, the modern version of terrorism emerged after 1967 and the Six Day ...

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