Eleven athletes of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September. ... At 9:35am, the terrorists are identified as Black September, a Palestinian organization, and issue their demands. ... Negotiators demanded to speak with the hostages directly to confirm that the Israeli's were still alive. ... At 11pm, two of the Palestinian terrorists holding the pilots at gunpoint are shot by snipers and killed instantly, the other four moving into cover from the view of the snipers. ... Yossef Gutfreund,...

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The most influential variable in the relationship between Syria and Lebanon is Israel and their occupation of the Golan Heights along with their never-ending war with the Palestinians in the south of Lebanon. ... " (1) Secondly, the Israeli war with the Palestinians reached into southern Lebanon after the PLO was removed from Jordan and relocated there. ... After shots were fired at a church, gunmen in Christian East Beirut ambushed a busload of Palestinians. ... "(5) This period is important because it heightened the Israeli military in Lebanon and the Syrians, who supported the Palestinians...

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Another story that has been run frequently depicts a Palestinian boy and his father evading Israeli troops just before gunfire strikes the boy (Emery). ... This is referring to terroristic Palestinian suicide bombers. They refute this by saying that they use this term "for all Palestinians who die for a cause" (Campagna). ... Regardless of how we Americans envision martyrdom, Palestinians that sacrifice their lives can rightly be called martyrs. ... Complaints have also come in from Algeria to Yemen. ...

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The dawn of the modern age of terrorism dates back to September 5, 1972, when the Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli Olympic team in Munich. ... The movement was created and sponsored by Iran in July 1982, initially as a form of resistance to the Israeli presence in Southern Lebanon. ... The principle goals established by Khomeinism are the equality of all Lebanon's citizens, complete American and French withdrawal from Lebanon, the complete destruction of Israel, and the establishment of Islamic rule over Jerusalem. ...

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The present is based on the past. The experiences in our past lives shape the way we live today. The same can be held true for the world of politics and international relations. The present system of the world is established on what happened centuries ago. To follow from that, what happened fifty- six years ago - the end of World War II. ...

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