ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses international terrorist activity against the backdrop of the crisis. It reviews factors that contributed to the salient discrepancy between threats and expectations of terrorism on the one hand, and the actual volume of attacks on the other. The chapter focuses in particular on the implications of new occurrences in the Gulf with regard to international terrorism and, in particular, the Palestinian armed struggle against Israel. The eruption of the Gulf crisis stimulated, in effect, rapprochement between Iraq and some of these groups after years of cool relationships. The exclusion of Israel from the lists of specific objectives for attacks can be clarified by elaborating upon the role attributed to terrorist threats during the crisis. The fear of attack against Israeli objectives derived from the linkage that Baghdad attempted to foster between the Gulf crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Finally, a word about the future of the international arena as a venue for anti-Israel terrorism.
