- 11 Oct 2023 11:22
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"Netanyahu is like a man who, while negotiating the division of a pizza, continues to eat it." - Avi Shlaim, British-Israeli historian.
I've been observing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for quite a while now (20+ years?), and one thing that stands out to me of late is the remarks I hear that the Palestinian militant groups are becoming more and more radical (and brutal) compared to how they used to be. The current attack has led a number of observers to comment on how the attacks reminded them of ISIS barbarity.
The dynamics of the different groups I always found interesting. Each seemed to splinter from a larger parent group because they were not militant enough, resulting in groups such as Islamic Jihad. Since the fall of ISIS, apparently, a large number of their fighters have spread across the globe and I estimate a good many would have made their way into the different flavours of Palestinian Militant groups. As these fighters were taken in and absorbed, their ideology and tactics would have influenced these militant groups. Not to mention the radical religious ideology - which if I remember correctly, ISIS was even at one point hostile to the Palestinian cause because it was far too focused on a Palestinian National goal, rather than a purely Islamic cause.
So my question is, has the ideology of ISIS and its tactics and methods, co-opted the Palestinian militant groups?
The dynamics of the different groups I always found interesting. Each seemed to splinter from a larger parent group because they were not militant enough, resulting in groups such as Islamic Jihad. Since the fall of ISIS, apparently, a large number of their fighters have spread across the globe and I estimate a good many would have made their way into the different flavours of Palestinian Militant groups. As these fighters were taken in and absorbed, their ideology and tactics would have influenced these militant groups. Not to mention the radical religious ideology - which if I remember correctly, ISIS was even at one point hostile to the Palestinian cause because it was far too focused on a Palestinian National goal, rather than a purely Islamic cause.
So my question is, has the ideology of ISIS and its tactics and methods, co-opted the Palestinian militant groups?
"Netanyahu is like a man who, while negotiating the division of a pizza, continues to eat it." - Avi Shlaim, British-Israeli historian.