ABSTRACT
A comparison of the active engagement of factors within Israeli society endorsing Jewish-Israeli terrorism on the one hand, and Arab terrorism on the other, will reveal different patterns of attitude and behaviour. Apart from an insignificant fraction of the extreme left, overall Jewish-Israeli society is definitely opposed to any kind of Arab terrorism. Moreover, its definition for this kind of terrorism belongs to the exhaustive version rather than the narrow one.1 Yet, when referring to Jewish terrorism, Jewish-Israeli society lays different emphases, is interested in and establishes categories of definition according to the national identity of the terrorist actors. The primary basic distinction refers to Jewish-Israeli versus Arab (Israeli and non-Israeli) terrorism. The other differentiation concerns the kinds of Jewish-Israeli terrorism. Thus, the support for the so-called ‘Jewish Underground’ is undoubtedly overwhelming when compared to the indifference characterizing the attitude
towards other terrorists, such as the TNT group, the Lifta gang and individuals who resorted to counter-Palestinian terrorism.
