List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

AIPAC America Israel Public Affairs Committee

DMI Director of Military Intelligence

GSS General Security Service (Israel)

HAMAS Islamic Resistance Movement

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

ICCPR International Covenant on Civil and Political

Rights

ICJ International Court ofJustice

ICRC International Committee of the Red Cross

IDF Israeli Defence Force

LHY Lochamei Heruth Israel (or Stern Group)

NGO non-governmental organization

NPT Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear

Weapons

OAPEC Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting

Countries

PNA Palestinian National Authority

PFLP Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

PLO Palestine Liberation Organization

TIPH Temporary International Presence in Hebron

U.N.

U.S. United States

UNEF United Nations Emergency Force

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and

Cultural Organization

UNIFIL United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

UNSCOP United Nations Special Committee on Palestine

UNTSO United Nations Truce Supervision Organization

(Palestine)

UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for

Palestinian Refugees

USSR or Soviet Union Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

WMD weapons of mass destruction