There is no significant difference, if any, between terrorist organizations and organized crime organizations. More precisely, there is an essential similarity between them.
Whatever their respective motives, both types of organizations seek to impose extreme terror on certain audiences. Their power lies in their audacity to violate the law and the social order, either because, like terrorist organizations, they believe that these are illegitimate, or because, like organized crime organizations, they simply show contempt for the laws, because they can. The legislature must consider whether the time has come to refer to the phenomenon of organized crime as one of terrorism, while applying the provisions of the Combating Terrorist Organizations Law from 2016 to organized crime organizations, with the necessary changes.
The intensity of global terrorist activity in the last two decades has turned the issue of terrorism into one of the most urgent problems. Although the term "terrorism" appears in almost every book, magazine, and newspaper in the world, the nations of the world are still deeply divided over the meaning of this term. Be that as it may, the roots of this phenomenon are buried deep in history, where at its foundation lies the conceptual idea of imposing extreme terror.
Linguistically, the roots of the term "terror" are anchored in the Anglo-French term “terrour,” derived from the Latin “terror,” which originates in the word terrEre, which means "to frighten," and is similar to the Greek term “trein,” meaning to be fearful, and “tremein,” which means "to tremble." In addition, the Bible describes a spectrum of degrees of great fear, which is expressed through the word "hatat," translated into English language as "terror," and as fright and fear.
This also lies at core of the phenomenon of organized crime. Its main purpose is to impose terror and fear on certain audiences in order to achieve several goals. No matter how different these goals are – political, economic, and others – the principal goal is still the power to impose terror and fear on certain audiences.
It is therefore no wonder that the Arab public in Israel regards the rising violence among them, which originates from organized crime, as criminal terrorism.
There is no significant difference, if any, between terrorist organizations and organized crime organizations. More precisely, there is an essential similarity between them.
Whatever their respective motives, both types of organizations seek to impose extreme terror on certain audiences. Their power lies in their audacity to violate the law and the social order, either because, like terrorist organizations, they believe that these are illegitimate, or because, like organized crime organizations, they simply show contempt for the laws, because they can. The legislature must consider whether the time has come to refer to the phenomenon of organized crime as one of terrorism, while applying the provisions of the Combating Terrorist Organizations Law from 2016 to organized crime organizations, with the necessary changes.
The intensity of global terrorist activity in the last two decades has turned the issue of terrorism into one of the most urgent problems. Although the term "terrorism" appears in almost every book, magazine, and newspaper in the world, the nations of the world are still deeply divided over the meaning of this term. Be that as it may, the roots of this phenomenon are buried deep in history, where at its foundation lies the conceptual idea of imposing extreme terror.
Linguistically, the roots of the term "terror" are anchored in the Anglo-French term “terrour,” derived from the Latin “terror,” which originates in the word terrEre, which means "to frighten," and is similar to the Greek term “trein,” meaning to be fearful, and “tremein,” which means "to tremble." In addition, the Bible describes a spectrum of degrees of great fear, which is expressed through the word "hatat," translated into English language as "terror," and as fright and fear.
This also lies at core of the phenomenon of organized crime. Its main purpose is to impose terror and fear on certain audiences in order to achieve several goals. No matter how different these goals are – political, economic, and others – the principal goal is still the power to impose terror and fear on certain audiences.
It is therefore no wonder that the Arab public in Israel regards the rising violence among them, which originates from organized crime, as criminal terrorism.