Terrorism

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terrorism

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Social Issues

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terrorism

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Over the past Century, terrorism has evolved from random killings to massive
plans for terrorist groups. To understand terrorism you must first describe it.
There have been many different definitions of terrorism. The one that truly
describes it is; Terrorism can not specifically describe terrorism because
people will interpret it differently. Many experts believe that terrorism is an
abstract concept with no essence, a single definition cannot account for all the
possible uses of the term, many different definitions share common elements, the
meaning of terrorism derives from the victim of target. Even with no definite
conclusion terrorism can be divided into 5 categories: Simple Violence or
threatened violence intended to produce fear or change. Legal Criminal violence
violating legal codes and punishable by the state. Analytical Specific political
and social factors behind individual terrorist acts. State-sponsored Terrorist
groups used by small states and the Communist bloc to attack western interests.
State Power of the government used to terrorize its people into submission. With
the definitions described one can now put a terrorist organization into a
specific group. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is an analytical
terrorist group, even though they can be part of each. The PLO was created in
1964 during a meeting known as the Palestinian Congress. This was an effort to
give a voice to the many Palestinians that were located in refugee camps in
Lebanon. The leader of the group is one of the most recognized terrorists in the
world, Yasser Arafat. It did not take long for sub-divisions to break off of the
PLO. Most of these groups felt they could better achieve Palestinian liberation.
The most notable of these groups were the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine, Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Popular
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command, and al-Fatah.
The PLO changed its main theory to the destruction of the state of Israel in
1967. This caused massive terrorist acts against Israel, which resulted in
hundreds of casualties on both sides. In 1974 the PLO changed into not just a
terrorist group to a group which included political elements. Some members of
the PLO did not like this idea and founded another sub-division called the
Rejectionist Front. At this time Arafat took over all control of the PLO.

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