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published an article entitled "O Knife Revolution, Head Toward America." The magazine urged Muslims to kill "the intelligentsia, economic and influential personalities of America," by low-tech methods including stabbing attacks on the grounds that such assaults are "easy options that do not require
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is thought to have been driven not by formal organizations but, rather by social media postings inspiring young Palestinians to undertake attacks with knives and with vehicles. In response, Israeli police have revamped their anti-terrorism tactics, increasing monitoring of social media, improving
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the intercommunication of mobile devices, and giving security agencies the ability to instantly trace phone calls made from such devices.
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stabbing attacks in which Palestinian Arabs attacked Israelis began on 3 October 2015 with the first of the
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The series of Palestinian stabbing attacks were followed by the spread of such attacks during the wave of
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attacks, which have been used as a tactic for thousands of years, became an increasingly common form of
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in Europe by the spring of 2017, with a particular concentration of such attacks in France.
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huge efforts or man power, but the result is parallel to the big operations or even more."
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targeting random civilians in the 21st century, in particular during the 2010s and 2020s.
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Fox, Robert (27 June 2017). "Israel changes tactics to tackle street terror".
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which had seen "at least" 10 stabbing attacks allegedly motivated by
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Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and
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Romero, Juan (2022). "A comparative evolution of terrorism".
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2015–2016 wave of violence in Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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