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Definition of Islamic Resistance Movement

1. Noun. A militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon; seeks to create an Islamic state in place of Israel; is opposed to the PLO and has become a leading perpetrator of terrorist activity in Israel; pioneered suicide bombing.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Islamic Resistance Movement

Literary usage of Islamic Resistance Movement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians by Joe Stork (2002)
"Hamas (harakat al-muqawama al-islamiyya, Islamic Resistance Movement) Since September 2000, Hamas has carried out more suicide bombing attacks on civilians ..."

2. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"A case in point is the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), whose publicized platform asserts, "it is the personal religious duty (Fard' Ayn) of each ..."

3. Israel's Unilaterialism: Beyond Gaza by Robert Zelnick (2006)
"'The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement," 18 August 1988. Available online via the Avalon Project at Yale Law School at www.yale.edu/ ..."

4. In Support of Arab Democracy: Why and how : Report of an Independent Task Force by Madeleine Korbel Albright, Vin Weber (2005)
"Complicating matters for US policymakers is the existence of hybrid organizations such as Lebanon's Hizballah and Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement, ..."

5. Patterns of Global Terrorism 1993 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Forces arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PU) have led the violent opposition to the ..."

6. Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians by Joe Stork (2002)
"Hamas (harakat al-muqawama al-islamiyya, Islamic Resistance Movement) Since September 2000, Hamas has carried out more suicide bombing attacks on civilians ..."

7. Technology Against Terrorism: Structuring Security (1994)
"A case in point is the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), whose publicized platform asserts, "it is the personal religious duty (Fard' Ayn) of each ..."

8. Israel's Unilaterialism: Beyond Gaza by Robert Zelnick (2006)
"'The Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement," 18 August 1988. Available online via the Avalon Project at Yale Law School at www.yale.edu/ ..."

9. In Support of Arab Democracy: Why and how : Report of an Independent Task Force by Madeleine Korbel Albright, Vin Weber (2005)
"Complicating matters for US policymakers is the existence of hybrid organizations such as Lebanon's Hizballah and Palestine's Islamic Resistance Movement, ..."

10. Patterns of Global Terrorism 1993 by DIANE Publishing Company (1994)
"The Izz al-Din al-Qassam Forces arm of the Islamic Resistance Movement (HAMAS) and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PU) have led the violent opposition to the ..."

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