Militant Islamist Group: Hamas

Israel has said that they disagree with Kerry’s talks of peace in early 2015, saying the US will give up too much to reach a compromise. David Horovitz of the Times of Israel has said “It seemed inconceivable that [John Kerry] would have drafted an initiative that… did not require the dismantling of Hamas’s rocket arsenal and network of tunnels dug under the Israeli border.” His draft-released on July 25, 2014-was very commonly called “Pro-Hamas”by Israelis due to the fact that Kerry didn’t call for Hamas to end the rocket attacks on Israel. A poll taken in 2014 by Israel’s Channel 10 showed that 86.5% of Israelites were against the cease fire due to the fact that Hamas is far from a

On April 5th, 2018, a group of Palestinian protesters marched their way to the Gaza-Israel border, before being interrupted by a sudden eruption of gunfire and smoke. The Israeli army opened fire on thousands of civilians, killing 18 and wounding many others. Israeli troops fight and kill the inhabitants of their neighboring territory, those who are innocent civilians of their own country (Jones). Tragedies like this happen nearly every month, in dozens of regions across the globe. Armed forces brought upon residents in an effort to eradicate, disguised as control. Ranging from police brutality to ethnic cleansings and cultural genocide, the use of military force is severely abused, and results in devastation around the world. Therefore, the

The Gaza Strip was put into a state of distraught by the Israeli imposed blockade against the Palestinian territory. Israel's government has had control over the Gaza Strip ever since its victory back in 1967. Ruth Eglash constructed interviews with both Palestinians and Israelis to ask the simple question, is Gaza still occupied? It came to a conclusion, that there is proof and evidence that Gaza is still under the control of Israel, even if people say otherwise. One of her interviewees, Raji Sourani, stated, “ They are trying to highlight the gravity of the situation [in Gaza], where 65 percent of the people are unemployed, 90 percent live under the poverty line, 85 percent depend on [the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East]”(Eglash, Does Israel…).

HAMAS, an Arabic acronym meaning “Islamic Resistance Movement”, is the name of the socio-political organization currently in power over the Gaza Strip. For decades Jews & Muslims and Israelis & Palestinians, often one in the same, have fought for control over the region. Each have killed thousands of the other, destroyed infrastructures and used underhanded tactics to gain an advantage. Nations such as Japan, the European Union, the United States and (of course) Israel classify the group as terrorists, while nations such as Turkey, Russia and Switzerland do not. (King, 2010) Many factors are taken into consideration before a Nation-State denounces an organization as a “terrorist group”. A profile of HAMAS may help make clear why it is

The Hamas participate in things such as large-scale suicide bombings, continuous attacking on the country of Israel, small-arm attacks, roadside explosives, and numerous, way too many to count, rocket attacks.

Tel Aviv - SP - Defense Minister of Israel, Avigdor Lieberman said that who initiated the rocket attacks is Hamas not Israel.

The Israel-Gaza conflict was started by Israel in The Gaza Strip, ruled by Hamas, an Islamic military group. It was started after Hamas fired rockets Israeli cities and infrastructures. Israel spent seven weeks on this conflict. This conflict, lead to deaths of thousands of people. Most of them were Gazans. The operation was started to stop Gaza from firing rockets into Israel. Even more rockets were fired after Israel destroyed the suspects of the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli tennagers by two men from Hamas. Gaza's goal was to cause other countries to pressure Israel into lifting its barrier on Gaza. They wanted another country to guarantee that Israel will agree with the cease-fire, release Palestinian prisoners, and break its national isolation. On August 10, an Egyptian cease-fire proposal was agreed to by Israeli and Palestinian officials. On August 13, the cease-fire was continued for another 120 hours. This allowed both sides to have time for more negotiations for a long-term solution to the fighting. On August 19, the cease-fire 24 hour ceasefire was broken with 29 Hamas rockets fired in 20 minutes. On August 21, Israel fired rockets which killed three Hamas commanders. Much more fighting continued over the next couple of days. On August 26, another ceasefire was agreed upon, which still stands to this day. Benjamin Netanyahu blamed Hamas for the Israel-Gaza conflict and

Since the conclusion of the aftermath of 9/11, terrorism has rapidly taken over as one of the major current threats to the world. Emerging onto the world stage as one of the major feared terrorist organizations came Hamas. Hamas is an Arabic acronym for the Islamic Resistance Movement. Their origins date back to 1987 after the beginning of the first Palestinian uprising. This uprising was centered around resisting Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. In addition, they gained major ground, in reference to the political atmosphere, in 2006 whenever Hamas won a big victory in the Palestinian Legislative Council. Since their major political victory in 2006, Hamas has been constantly evolving by defining who they are. They also

It was ten years ago that Gaza Strip residents were forced out of their homes. From picturesque Gush Katif, from Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and from four small settlements in the northern West Bank. The ticket? Peace and renewed international support for Israel.

Al-Shabaab as a terrorist group poses a significant threat in Somalia and in the global community. This paper will start by discussing the background. In this part the paper will show how the group has evolved from Al-Ittihad Al-Islam (AIAI) to the Islamic Court Union (ICU) and lastly to Al-Shabaab. Before discussing the group’s threat of national security, homeland and international, this paper will provide the conceptual meaning of key terminology, such as national security, homeland security, international security and globalization. It is important to understand these concepts before moving toward the main argument of the paper. After providing the framework for key concepts, the paper will discuss the group’s threat to Somalia in two areas, national security and homeland security. The paper will go further and identify the threats posed by the group on other nations’ homeland security and international security. We will use East African countries and the United States examples. The paper will provide evidence to support how globalization has shaped and fueled the threats from Al-Shabaab. It will then discuss the primary response from the United States and from African countries through AMISOM. The paper will provide the way forward and suggestions for the response of the international community to Al-Shabaab. In conclusion, we will try to alert the international community that although the group has been experience hard times in Somalia, it is unwise to

In comparison of Arabic or Muslim organized terrorist groups, the Israeli or Jewish organized terrorist groups are rarely talked about. Certainly I, an ordinary non-Israeli/Arab, have not heard of any terror ‘group’, apart from brutal attacks against the Palestinians perpetuated by Israeli ‘right wings’ (which are framed as violence perpetuated by individuals). Especially in the media of the United States and of its allies, the theme of Jewish religious terrorism is out of the media’s long list of possible headlines; due to the rejection from the media, Muslim- and Arab-led terrorisms in the Middle East region are the only terrorism that the public know of, and the Jewish religious terrorism is out of the sight of many people. But looking at

Arab and Israel have been fighting over Gaza for decades. After the holocaust where six million Jews were killed, many Jewish people wanted their own country. So they were given a large part of Palestine, which they though of their home but the Arabs in near by countries thought this was unfair and didn’t accept the new country. Because of this the two sides went to war and in the end Gaza was controlled by Egypt. It contained thousands of Palestinians who fled the new Jewish home, Israel.

Hamas, an organization which was formed in the year 1987, 5 years after 53 massacres were committed by the Zionist, killing approximately 3,500 innocent civilians, from men, women, to children. Zionist ‘claims’ one of the reasons as to why they attack Palestinians is because of Hamas, which they consider to be a terrorist group. However as stated above, Hamas didn’t form until after Zionist executed innocent civilians. So that ‘claim’ is only an excuse to kill innocent Palestinians to occupy their land and kill innocent civilians. This shows the real terrorist group isn’t Hamas as they claim, but themselves (Erdogan: Hamas made up of freedom fighters, not terrorists, 2012).

The BDS Movement is a revolutionary movement that still goes on today. The BDS Movement stands for “boycott, divestment, and sanctions in which are against Israel until it complies with international law for Palestinians”(The BDS Movement). This movement for the Palestinians rights was started by “Palestinian civil society in 2005 and is coordinated by the Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) which was established in 2007”(BDS Movement). BDS is a strategy that “allows people of conscience to play an effective role in the Palestinian struggle for justice” (The BDS Movement). It has been realized that Israel, for decades, has denied Palestinians their “fundamental rights of freedom, equality, and self-determination through ethnic cleansing,

The conflict between Hamas and Fatah lasted for four years despite of several attempts by the two groups to put their differences aside. In addition to being known as the struggle for Palestine, the Hamas vs. Fatah rift led to various concerns on the possibility of having a Palestinian civil war. This is primarily because it was a major struggle that was described as the biggest internal disagreement in Palestinian history. The conflict between Hamas and Fatah is a rift between Islamism and nationalism respectively. Moreover, this rift is also a struggle between two organizations that want the benefits of leadership i.e. power, money, and prestige (Rubin, 2006). The struggle started after Hamas won majority of the seats in the January 2006 democratic elections and revolved around the control of Palestinian territories. However, this struggle became intensely personal after Israel's 22-day war of Gaza.