Interest groups share a desire to affect government policy to benefit themselves or their causes. Their goal could be a policy that exclusively benefits group members or one segment of society or a policy that advances a broader public purpose.
The mining industry contributed to the development of railroads because the mining industry required transport routes to transport the goods that they mined to factories to be processed and urban centers to be finished and sold. Also they helped to contribute to the development of railroads by providing the metals and other inputs necessary to build the railroads themselves.
<span>In the early 1970's there was a splinter group associated with the PLO called the Fatah; some of it's member dissidents led by Yasser Arafat formed Black September in order to seek revenge on King Hussein for attempting to claim his kingdom by force. It was a terrorist organization and was active until 1973.</span>
The Judaism and Islam share beliefs in the Afterlife, Final Judgment, and Resurrection.