Notes
1. Hassan Nasrallah (b. 1960) became Secretary General of the Lebanese group Hezbollah after his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi, was assassinated by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in February 1992.
2. The Israeli occupation of southern Lebanon took place after Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982. Israel remained in partial control of the region above its northern border (the so-called ‘South Lebanon Security Belt’) until it withdrew in the year 2000.
3. The Provisional Irish Republican Army (PIRA) emerged in December 1969, following a split in the Republican movement. The other faction to arise from the split was the Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA), which declared a ceasefire in May 1972. The PIRA was by far the larger faction and is often termed simply as the ‘IRA’. In 1974, the Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) was founded by OIRA members who opposed the ceasefire.
4. ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna: trans. ‘Basque Country and Freedom’).
5. ‘Every one of the case studies examined sustainedly in this book has involved considerable human suffering being caused; none of them has involved the achievement of the relevant group’s central goal’ (p.265).