International Terrorism CJ 350 Instructor: Danielle Rowell - Essay Example

(Abadie, 2004)” James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, asserted that the war on terrorism ‘will not be won until we have come to grips with the problem of poverty and thus the sources of discontent’ and George W. Bush said, ‘We fight against poverty because hope is an answer to terror. . We will challenge the poverty and hopelessness and lack of education and failed governments that too often allow conditions that terrorists can seize (Krueger & Maleckova, (2003).” having identified the root cause of violence in the Middle East, First World nations and international development banks must have a clear action plan on alleviating the problem.

The problem is not a 20th or 21st century phenomenon but rather has been in existent for centuries; thus, if a radical change in global fiscal and economic policies that aim to balance the distribution of land and wealth, then Middle Eastern violence will never abate and will continue up to the succeeding generations. What is Hamas? Hezbollah? Islamic Jihad? What are the differences between them? Are these groups a threat to the United States? If so, how so? Under what circumstance, if any, should we negotiate with terror groups such as these?

Hamas, acronym of Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyyah ("Islamic Resistance Movement"), is a Palestinian anti-occupation organization closely related to the Muslim Brotherhood (Who are Hamas, 2006). Hizballah is an Islamic movement founded after the Israeli military seizure of Lebanon in 1982, which resulted in the formation of Islamic resistance units committed to the liberation of the occupied territories and the ejection of Israeli forces (Hizballah/Hizbollah/Hizbullah/Hezbollah, 2006). Harakat al-Jihad al-Islami al-Filastini, better known as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), was formed in 1979 by Islamic fundamentalist Fathi