Security Cabinet Communique: Global Jihad Threats

Israel Security Cabinet Communiqué: Global Jihad Organizations A Threat To The Western World

23 Jul 2008 - The Security Cabinet met today (Wednesday 23 July 2008), to discuss the Global Jihad threat to the region. Ministers received in-depth briefings from IDF Intelligence, Israel Security Agency and Mossad officials.

It arose in the discussion that Global Jihad organizations, led by Al Qaida, pose significant threats to the State of Israel, to Israeli citizens and to Jews around the world.

The aforesaid intelligence officials noted that Global Jihad constitutes a threat to the Western world, to democratic regimes and to moderate Arab elements, and added that there is concern that Global Jihad will cooperate with extremist elements in the region such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

It further arose that Global Jihad elements are utilizing civilian infrastructures, such as the internet, and information transfer technologies to coordinate, recruit and operate terrorists.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert instructed the aforesaid officials to continue their information-gathering and counter-terrorism efforts while coordinating with additional countries that are partners in the war on terrorism.

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

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NOTES

1. The Islamic Jihad movement emerged as an ideological stream within Sunni Islam, primarily from within the Moslem Brotherhood, as a reaction to the weakening of the latter's militant fervor. It continues to espouse militancy and violence as the major tool in the struggle to establish an 'Islamic alternative'.

2. This struggle is directed not only against non-Muslims, but primarily against the Arab regimes which have 'deviated' from Islam and which persecuted the Moslem Brotherhood.

3. Groups belong to the Islamic Jihad have appeared in almost all the Arab states and in some parts of the non-Arab Islamic world under various names. They were influenced by the success of the revolution in Iran, and even more so by the growth of Islamic militancy in Lebanon and in Egypt.

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