Editing Terrorism (section)

=== Non-state groups ===
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Groups not part of the state apparatus of in opposition to the state are most commonly referred to as a "terrorist" in the media.

According to the Global Terrorism Database, the most active terrorist group in the period 1970 to 2010 was [[Shining Path]] (with 4,517 attacks), followed by [[Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front]] (FMLN), [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|Irish Republican Army]] (IRA), [[Basque Fatherland and Freedom]] (ETA), [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC), [[Taliban]], [[Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam]], [[New People's Army]], [[National Liberation Army of Colombia]] (ELN), and [[Kurdistan Workers Party]] (PKK).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/publications/br/ETACeasefires.pdf |title=Background Report: ETA Ceasefires by the Numbers |publisher=The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) |access-date=November 12, 2021 |archive-date=November 4, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104025002/https://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/files/publications/br/ETACeasefires.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Israel]] has had problems with [[Jewish religious terrorism|religious terrorism]] even before independence in 1948. During [[Mandate for Palestine|British mandate over Palestine]], the secular [[Irgun]] were among the Zionist groups labelled as terrorist organisations by the British authorities and [[United Nations]],<ref>Martin Gilbert. Churchill and the Jew Quotings. p. 270.</ref> for violent terror attacks against Britons and Arabs.<ref>Pope Brewer, Sam. [https://www.nytimes.com/1947/12/30/archives/irgun-bomb-kills-11-arabs-2-britons-missile-thrown-from-a-taxi-in.html?sq=terrorist+Irgun&scp=2&st=p Irgun Bomb Kills 11 Arabs, 2 Britons] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124132040/https://www.nytimes.com/1947/12/30/archives/irgun-bomb-kills-11-arabs-2-britons-missile-thrown-from-a-taxi-in.html?sq=terrorist+Irgun&scp=2&st=p|date=November 24, 2018}}. ''New York Times''. December 30, 1947.</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Parker |first1=Ned |last2=Farrell |first2=Stephen |date=July 20, 2006 |title=British anger at terror celebration |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article690085.ece |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805100845/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article690085.ece |archive-date=August 5, 2010 |access-date=May 5, 2010 |work=The Times |location=London}}</ref> Another extremist group, the [[Lehi (militant group)|Lehi]], openly declared its members as "terrorists".<ref>{{cite journal |author=Calder Walton |year=2008 |title=British Intelligence and the Mandate of Palestine: Threats to British national security immediately after the Second World War |journal=Intelligence and National Security |volume=23 |issue=4 |pages=435–462 |doi=10.1080/02684520802293049 |s2cid=154775965 | issn = 0268-4527}}</ref><ref>Heller, J. (1995). ''The Stern Gang''. Frank Cass. {{ISBN|0-7146-4558-3}}</ref> Historian William Cleveland stated many Jews justified any action, even terrorism, taken in the cause of the creation of a Jewish state.<ref>Cleveland, William L. ''A History of the Modern Middle East''. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2004. Print. p. 243</ref> In 1995, [[Yigal Amir]] assassinated Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]]. For Amir, killing Rabin was an exemplary act that symbolized the fight against an illegitimate government that was prepared to cede Jewish Holy Land to the Palestinians.{{sfn|Spaaij|2012|page=68}} Members of [[Kach (political party)|Kach]], a Jewish ultranationalist party, employed terrorist tactics in pursuit of what they viewed as religious imperatives. Israel and a few other countries have designated the party as a terrorist group.<ref>Shah, S. A. A. (2005). Religious terrorism in other faiths. ''Strategic Studies'', ''25''(2), 126-141.</ref>