ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents the key concepts of the proceding chapters of this book. The escalating violence between Israelis and Palestinians in March-April 2002 brought into focus the contentious issue of the relationship between terrorism and resistance to military or colonial occupation. While the Muslim world maintained that the two were separate, the Bush administration is divided between the hawks, who regarded Yasser Arafat as a sponsor of terrorism and thus unfit to be a peace partner; and the doves, who advocated an even-handed stance toward Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the popularly elected Arafat failed to make up its mind. Overall, of the three issues of deep concern to the Arab and Muslim world such as the stationing of US military in Saudi Arabia, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the fate of Iraq only the first one had been virtually resolved, with the remaining two continuing to be running sores, spawning terrorism.
