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Trump’s last gasps on foreign policy will lead to more terrorism, not less

The Trump Administration’s rush to get Arab/Muslim states to recognise Israel will paper over historical differences and feed political violence.

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November 4, 1995: Assassination of Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin

The November 1995 assassination of Israeli PM Rabin by a Jewish extremist is a good reminder that terrorism knows no religious bounds.

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Will the newest flare up in Nagorno-Karabakh lead to Armenian terrorism?

Renewed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh could lead to a new wave of Armenian terrorism.

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October 17, 2001: Assassination of Israeli minister

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine assassinated the Israeli Tourism Minister at a hotel in Jerusalem in October 2001.

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October 13, 1977: Hijacking of Lufthansa flight 181

In 1977 PFLP terrorists hijacked Lufthansa flight 181, killing the pilot before German anti-terror commandos stormed the plane.

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October 4, 1972: Bookstore bombing in Paris

It is ironic when a terrorist group is itself hit by a terrorist attack. PARIS, FRANCE — Like a lot of people I enjoy a really well written (or dramatised) whodunit. The twists and turns of the plot, the false leads, the paths that lead nowhere and, of course, the ultimate discovery of the real […]

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October 3, 1980: Bombing of a synagogue in Paris

A 1980 motorcycle bomb planted by the PFLP outside a synagogue in Paris killed four and wounded more than 40,

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September 16, 1982: Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut, Lebanon

A Lebanese Christian group massacred hundreds and perhaps thousands of Shia Muslims in Beirut as the Israeli army looked on in September 1982.

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Murder of 17-year old woman in West Bank

On this day in 2019, Israeli forces arrested three members of the terrorist group PFLP for the murder of a 17-year old woman hiking with her father and brother in the West Bank.

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Vehicular ramming in West Bank (July 6, 2016)

On this day in 2016, a Palestinian man lightly injured three Israeli soldiers near an illegal settlement in the West Bank: the culprit was seriously wounded.