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Friday, April 13, 1984

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Rarni Keich, a paraplegic wounded in the Lebanon war,
greets his mare Heather on her recent arrival at Israel's
Ben-Gurion Airport. The specially-trained mare, purchased
with funds from British donors, will enable Keich to
continue riding. Heather was flown free of charge by El Al.

Academics define terrorism

BY RONNIE MISHEIKER
Jerusalem — An unusual
inter-university conference
on "Underground move-
ments — terrorists or free-
dom fighters?" was recently
held at Bar-Ilan University
and the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem. An interna-
tional panel of experts who
participated in the dis-
cussions dwelled on prob-
lems of contemporary
ideological and political vio-
lence and the implications
of terrorism on national,
regional and global levels.
The project was conceived
and initiated by Dr. Eli Ta-
vin, head of the Department
for Education and Culture
of the World Zionist Organ-
ization, himself a former
underground fighter (of the
Irgun Zvai Leumi).
Dr. Tavin told the confer-
ence that "there are those
who are still trying to
equate the Jewish freedom
fighters with present day
terrorists, but nothing can
be further from the truth."
Contemporary terrorists
operate outside basic rules
of civilization.
He warned that terrorism
is one of the most menacing
techniques for disrupting
the fabric of civilized order
in open society.
For three days partici-
pants from Israel, the
United States, France,
Sweden, Norway, Japan
and Venezuela discussed
the national, regional and
global perspectives of con-
temporary terror, including
the psychology of terror,
terrorism and the media,
the Middle East experience,
the third world experience,
European terror and others.
A session was devoted to the
Jewish experience, begin-
ning with the struggle for
the freedom of a small na-
tion in the days of Bar-
Kochba and the period be-
fore the establishment of
the State of Israel when un-
derground activities of the
Haganah, the Irgun Zvai
Leumi and the Lehi made
their mark on Jewish his-
tory.
participants
Israeli
stressed that even the most
extreme pre-state under-
ground movements had op-
erated within strict moral
limits that excluded attacks
on British civilians. This

distinguished Jewish un-
derground movements from
the indiscriminate, brutal
terrorism of today.
During the British man-
datory period warnings be-
fore bobby-trapped build-
ings were exploded were un-
fortunately not always
heeded, as in the case of the
King David Hotel explosion
which claimed civilian
Jives, amongst them Jews.
The conference highligh-
ted the following to serve as
a basis in analysing the dif-
ferences between terrorists
and freedom fighters:
• Freedom fighters are
engaged in selective forms
of violence directed against
colonial or dictatorial re-
gimes when all political and
legal steps both on the
domestic and international
levels have been exhausted.
• Such selective violence
is directed against adminis-
tration and military build-
ings and agents of the power
they claim to fight. It never
includes civilians as targets
and is used to the minimum
extent possible, which dis-
tinguishes the methods
used by freedom fighters
from the indiscriminate vio-
lence used by terrorists.
• As against this, ter-
rorism represents the use of
indiscriminate and unre-
strained psychological and
physical extra-legal force,
including intimidation,
coercion, repression and ul-
timately destruction of
human lives and property
for are purpose of attaining
political goals.
• Terrorist actions are
intended to destroy, shock,
stun and intimidate a target
group wider than the im-
mediate victims.
• Terrorists act in com-
plete disregard for funda-
mental human rights and
its typical feature is an or-
ganized attack on innocent
victims, frequently bystan-
ders who have no direct
connection to a particular
cause or conflict.
• Terrorist attacks are
contrary to international
law and flout the letter and
spirit of the U.N. Charter.
No claim to act on behalf of
attaining freedom can jus-
tify terrorism as defined
here.
World Zionist Press Service

