Chronologies of Modern Terrorism

“Make No Mistake—This was a Terrorist Attack”: Examining the Discursive Construction of Terrorism in Canada

“…I will not expand on these concepts here, but one can see that these terms share some common ground; Henderson (2001) provides additional context for a few of these terms as they relate to terrorism. To add to this tangle of terms, Rubin and Rubin (2008) acknowledge that many governments have committed acts that could be considered terrorism, but for the purposes of their book chose to distinguish between non-governmental terrorism and 'state repression'. We may also use modified terms like 'state terrorism' or 'statesponsored terrorism'.…”

“…Though political violence is a steadfast presence in history, Rubin and Rubin (2008) assert that more recent examples of political violence intentionally use "deliberately organized and ideologically justified terrorism by nonstate actors as a political philosophy and as a strategy for seeking to gain political power rather than merely as a by-product of political struggle" (p. 3). They further suggest that both mass politics, in which the general public decides how a country is led, and ethnic nationalism, in which one ethnic community feels superior to or threatened by another, contribute to terrorism as a political strategy.…”

“…Two ethno-nationalist Jewish groups, the Lehi and the Irgun, resorted to terrorist attacks in an attempt to make British forces and Palestinian Arabs withdraw from the region (Law, 2009). The United Nations' 1948 proclamation to partition part of Palestine into a Jewish state (Israel) was met with increasing hostility from Arab countries (Rubin & Rubin, 2008;Henderson, 2001).…”

“…Military activities, referred to as 'terrorism' by Rubin and Rubin (2008), became a political strategy for Palestinian leadership in the mid-1960s. Rubin and Rubin (2008) (Law, 2009, p. 218), and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which Arafat subsequently "commandeered" beginning in 1969 (Law, 2009, p. 220).…”

“…Military activities, referred to as 'terrorism' by Rubin and Rubin (2008), became a political strategy for Palestinian leadership in the mid-1960s. Rubin and Rubin (2008) (Law, 2009, p. 218), and the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO), which Arafat subsequently "commandeered" beginning in 1969 (Law, 2009, p. 220). Despite many successful and high-profile terrorist attacks, including the death of 11 Israeli Olympians at the 1972 Olympic Games, Palestinian terrorism led by Arafat was not formally recognized by the international community; instead, Arafat presented himself as a revolutionary, and the United Nations recognized him and PLO as "the sole representatives of the Palestinian people" (Law, 2009, p. 226 Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by a right-wing Israeli (Rubin & Rubin, 2008;Henderson, 2001).…”