Organization(PLO), its militant wingFatah, and three competing major terrorist groups (Ḥamās,Islamic Jihad, andal-Aqṣā Martyrs Brigade) remained determined to regain control of theWest BankandGaza Stripand, eventually (a long-term goal for at least some of them), all of pre-1948 ...
employing symbols that are drawn from specific religions but which operate independently of those origins. He reckoned that the United States has its own series of saints andmartyrs(such asGeorge Washington,Thomas Jefferson, andAbraham Lincoln) and that an examination of founding documents and importan...