al-Jihad
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Al-Jihad
- Furthermore, and as a challenge to the PLO, al-Jihad has rejected the National Council resolutions and compromises and demanded withdrawal from the peace process.
- Tanzim al-Jihad
- al-Jihad al-Islami
- Hamas and al-Jihad
Examples
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Further, he added that al-Jihad is not ready and does not want to participate in the Palestinian Authority because al-Jihad's ideological orientation opposes the legitimacy of both the Palestinian Authority and Israel.
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The most prominent of these was al-Jihad, an arm of which was responsible for President Sadat's assassination in October 1981.
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Further, al-Jihad may only stop its military operations against Israel after the latter's withdrawal from the Territories.
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He added that al-Jihad's work covered all of Palestine and not just the Territories.
Academic text (1996) -
As to its relation with Hamas, al-Jihad coordinates with it, and the theoretical and practical gaps between the two, like the need for immediate jihad, are narrowing.
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Moreover, he argued that al-Jihad's work must focus on social and political mobilization that develops a national, popular Islamic opposition to Zionist trends within the Palestinian Authority.
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Al-Jihad was established in 1980 by a Cairo electrician named Abdel Salam Farag.
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There still seems to be a conflict between expatriate remnants of al-Jihad, who want to concentrate on assassinating key regime figures, and activists inside Egypt, who might be amenable to an accommodation with the authorities that would ease the burden of repression.
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At the time, Zawahiri was a principal member of al-Jihad, the radical Egyptian group.
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Al-Jihad was established in 1980 by a Cairo electrician named al-Jihad.
Synonyms
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A secret group in Egypt that used violence to try to create an Islamic state
An Islamic group in Egypt that used violence to try to replace the government
A secret armed group in Egypt that wants to replace the government with a strict Islamic state
Surface Forms
Etymology
Al-Jihad comes from Arabic: al- means 'the' and jihad means 'struggle' or 'effort', so the name literally means 'the struggle'. That's why a group using this name presented itself as fighting to change the government, often by violent means.