"The term “forest jihad” itself seems to have been popularized by a 2008 article published by a retired Israeli colonel, Jonathan Fighel, on the website of an Israeli counterterrorism research institute.
Fighel’s article stated that, in Israel’s conflicts with Lebanon and Palestinians, fires deliberately set by militants damaged Israeli forests and cropland. Rather than being an inevitable result of irregular warfare and shelling, Fighel suggested, the damage suffered to Israeli agriculture during its wars was part of a deliberate terrorist-led “forest jihad,” with global connotations.
“’Forest Jihad’ (forest arson) is one manifestation of the ‘Economic Jihad’ tactics, a tool in a variety of options to cause economic direct and indirect secondary damages,” Fighel wrote, raising the specter that “forest jihad” is part of a broader set of boutique jihads being waged by terrorists against Western countries."
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/https://theintercept.com/2020/10/16/wildfires-forest-jihad-blueleaks/
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