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An Israeli soldier standing guard in Gaza, one of the most densely
populated areas on earth: 4,500 people per square mile.

HELEN DAVIS

Jerusalem Correspondent

erusalem —"Take up
arms and strike at the
Zionist enemy. It is not
important how and when you
are killed. The important
thing is the cause for which
you sacrifice your life. Now is
the time to liberate our land!'
This message, which was
contained in a leaflet
disseminated throughout the
Gaza Strip during November,
was not new; but nor was this
just another piece of Arab
hyperbole.
What made Israelis sit up
and take notice was the iden-
tity of the messenger, for the
fiery call to blood and martyr-
dom bore the signature of
Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy
War).
The Iranian-backed funda-
mentalist movement has
already changed the political
map of Lebanon and now it
seems poised to repeat its suc-
cess in this unloved, unlove-
ly corner of the Land of Israel.
In Gaza, the message was
recently given dramatic em-
phasis by 22-year-old Halad
al-Juaidi, now serving a life
sentence for murdering two
Jews in Gaza. "We, the
members of Islamic Jihad, at-
tach greater importance to
death than to life," the
firebrand declared at his trial.
"Either we liberate our coun-
try or we die!'
Sheikh Abdel al-Azziz
Odeh, the ideological and
spiritual leader of Islamic
Jihad in Gaza, echoed the
sentiment in an interview
with the BBC: "Jihad is the
only correct way to serve
Islam and establish an

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Islamic state," he proclaimed.
"There is no road but the road
of martyrdom!'
Israel's military chief in the
area, General Yitzhak Morde-
chai, has since reportedly
ordered the deportation of the
sheikh. But life sentences,
deportations and other tradi-
tional forms of deterrence are
unlikely to pacify a popula-
tion which is eking out a
hopeless life in wretched,
overcrowded slums and which
is rapidly spinning off into an
orbit of religious radicalism.
Unforgiving, uncompromis-
ing Islamic Jihad now prom-
ises to make the jaded
Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation (PLO) look like a ted-
dy bears' picnic.
During the past two months
of bloody unrest in Gaza,
Israeli soldiers and Jewish
civilians have been murdered
in broad daylight, while eight
armed Islamic Jihad activists
and rioting Gaza students
have been killed in a spiral of
violence and counter-violence.
It is not hard to see why
Gaza provides such fertile soil
for the germination of Islamic
extremism. For the past 500
years, the territory has been
possessed—and ignored by the
Ottoman Empire, Britain,
Egypt and, since 1967, Israel.
Today, just crossing the non-
existent border from Israel
presents a visual shock.
The neat rows of apartment
buildings, the lawns and
gardens of the Jewish town of
Ashkelon are abruptly re-
placed by an endless, ugly
complex of concrete-block
shacks topped with sheets of
corrogated iron and held in
place by large stones.
Ragged, barefoot children
play in the dust, farmers rum-

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