10 Nearly Forgotten Acts Of Terrorism From The 20th Century
Today, most people are quick to refer to 9/11 and the Charlie Hebdo attacks when we talk about terrorism. However, many people have forgotten or simply don’t know about some of the deadly terrorist attacks of the 20th century, whose perpetrators in some cases are still unknown.
10 Grand Mosque Seizure
On November 20, 1979, several hundred militants with plans to overthrow the Saudi government walked into the holiest place in Islam the Grand Mosque of Mecca and seized it. They blocked all entrances and exits and took about 100,000 hostages. Lasting almost two weeks, the hostage situation influenced the formation of Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda and would forever change Islam.
Have the Islamists failed in politics?
Moroccans protest the normalisation deals with Israel in Rabat, Morocco on 29 November 2020. [Jalal Morchidi/Anadolu Agency] December 31, 2020 at 6:00 am
Islamic movements need a comprehensive internal review to assess their political experiences over the past years and decades. This assessment should not stop at a single incident, but instead expand to include all contemporary experiences in order to come up with the necessary recommendations to pave the way for the required reform. Unless this happens, the presence of Islamists in politics will gradually disappear, especially in Arab countries.
The argument that the Islamists have always used to justify their failures is that they were not allowed to participate in governance, nor to implement their vision of it. They also claim that they are always subjected to a fierce war by repressive traditional regimes in the Arab world, or that they are facing systematic campaigns and plans by t
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Israel Gives Hero s Welcome To American Spy Jonathan Pollard By Ben Simon
12/30/20 AT 7:02 AM
Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed in the United States in 1985 for spying for Israel, landed in the Jewish state Wednesday to a hero s welcome led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Pollard, 66, served 30 years in prison for passing on classified documents when he served as a US Navy intelligence analyst, and had been confined to the United States under his parole terms since his 2015 release.
After years of Israeli lobbying to allow Pollard, a Jewish American, to leave, the US Justice Department removed the terms and conditions last month.
Jonathan Pollard: Convicted US spy lands in Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave the former spy a hero s weclome upon arrival. Pollard had served 30 years in prison before being granted parole.
Jonathan Pollard spent 30 years in a US federal prison and served a five-year parole period after his release in 2015
A video shared by the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed the 66-year-old kissing the ground upon arrival.
Netanyahu then welcomed Pollard and his wife Esther with a prayer before handing an Israeli passport to the Texas-born former prisoner. It s a very moving moment that Jonathan and Esther are home how good it is that they came home, Netanyahu said. Now you can start life anew, with freedom and happiness.