Hey Wiz:

I am no authority, but I believe a jihad is a struggle of religious principle and Islamic origin.

For our purposes I understand it to mean (religiously) motivated violence in the name of Islam, and I'm willing to expand it to be violence in the name of religion even if the base motive is elsewhere. So that for example, a political/religious/social organization such as Hamas might convince people to sacrifice themselves with the promise of an eternal reward in the hereafter, nevertheless the instigators themselves don't make that final jump. And I don't mean to imply that they are or are not cowards, just that as I understand it this is a highly organized and well funded activity.

By the way, you mentioned in your earlier posts the possibility of individual efforts at peace between individuals and settlements. I recently met an Israeli who mentioned that while this has been ever present and ongoing, it took a major blow with the latest intifada, and not only involved Arab Palestinians, but Arab Israelis withdrawing contacts with people who thought they were their fellow Israelis.