Intifada means war

BY ASAF ROMIROWSKY, YNETNEWS— The Arabic term Intifada connotes awakening or uprising and was first used during the 1987 uprising against Israel. It is also used in the Palestinian narrative in the sense of “to shake up or wake up” the world and Israel to all the wrong that was done to the Palestinians as…

Terrorism Flourishes Because It Brings Public Relations' and Political Gains

BY BARRY RUBIN— Why is terrorism against Israel increasing now? Because the terrorists have: –Everything to gain domestically. Terrorism mobilizes support among their own people and proves their militancy against rival groups. –Everything to gain regionally. There is increasing radicalization and growing power for revolutionary Islamism. Throughout the region and especially for Hamas, Egypt’s revolution–which…

War by every means

BY HELEN FREEDMAN, AFSI— We have been watching the war of deligitimization of Israel being waged throughout the world – even in Israel itself – where words have come into the vocabulary that have taken on entirely new meanings. Israel is seen as the “occupier”, guilty of “apartheid”, deserving of boycotts, divestments, sanctions, allowing its…